Partnership Working in Public Health / / David J. Hunter, Neil Perkins.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol UP/Policy Press Complete eBook-Package 2014
• VerfasserIn: Hunter, David J.,; Perkins, Neil,
• MitwirkendeR: Hunter, David J.,; Peckham, Stephen,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2014]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Evidence for Public Health Practice
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (224 p.)
• Other title: Front Matter --; Contents --; List of tables and boxes --; List of abbreviations --; Acknowledgements --; About the authors --; Series editors’ foreword --; Introduction --; Theories and concepts of partnerships --; Public health partnerships: what’s the prognosis? --; The view from the bridge: senior practitioners’ views on public health partnerships --; The view from the front line: practitioners’ views on public health partnerships --; The changing policy context: new dawn or poisoned chalice? --; Conclusion: the future for public health partnerships --; References --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781447301332; 9783111196343
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: David J. Hunter, Neil Perkins.

The UK government’s reforms of the NHS and public health system require partnerships if they are to succeed. Those partnerships concerned with public health are especially important and are deemed to be a ’good thing’ which add, rather than consume, value. Yet the significant emphasis on partnership working to secure effective policy and service delivery exists despite the evidence testifying to how difficult it is to make partnerships work or achieve results. Partnership working in public health presents the findings from a detailed study of public health partnerships in England. The lessons from the research are used to explore the government’s changes in public health now being implemented, most of which centre on new partnerships called Health and Wellbeing Boards that have been established to work differently from their predecessors.The book assesses their likely impact and the implications for the future of public health partnerships. Drawing on systems thinking, it argues that partnerships can only succeed if they work in quite different ways. The book will therefore appeal to the public health community and students of health policy.