Partnerships: survey respondents' perceptions of inter-professional collaboration to address alcohol-related harms in England
Thom, Betsy 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4975-7613, Herring, Rachel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8588-5842, Bayley, Mariana, Waller, Seta and Berridge, Virginia
(2013)
Partnerships: survey respondents' perceptions of inter-professional collaboration to address alcohol-related harms in England.
Critical Public Health, 23
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pp. 62-76.
ISSN 0958-1596
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(doi:10.1080/09581596.2012.724770)
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Abstract
Tackling alcohol-related harms crosses agency and professional boundaries, requiring collaboration between health, criminal justice, education and social welfare institutions. It is a key component of most multicomponent programmes in the United States, Australia and Europe. Partnership working, already embedded in service delivery structures, is a core mechanism for delivery of the new UK Government Alcohol Strategy. This article reports findings from a study of alcohol partnerships across England. The findings are based on a mix of open discussion interviews with key informants and on semi-structured telephone interviews with 90 professionals with roles in local alcohol partnerships. Interviewees reported the challenges of working within a complex network of interlinked partnerships, often within hierarchies under an umbrella partnership, some of them having a formal duty of partnership. The new alcohol strategy has emerged at a time of extensive reorganisation within health, social care and criminal justice structures. Further development of a partnership model for policy implementation would benefit from consideration of the incompatibility arising from required collaboration and from tensions between institutional and professional cultures. A clearer analysis of which aspects of partnership working provide ‘added value’ is needed.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Keywords (uncontrolled): | alcohol; partnerships; professional collaboration |
| Research Areas: | A. > School of Health and Education > Mental Health, Social Work and Interprofessional Learning |
| Item ID: | 9376 |
| Notes on copyright: | This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Critical Public Health on 27/09/2012, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/09581596.2012.724770 |
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| Depositing User: | Rachel Herring |
| Date Deposited: | 12 Oct 2012 08:26 |
| Last Modified: | 30 Nov 2022 00:14 |
| URI: | https://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/id/eprint/9376 |
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