Inter-organisational collaboration enabling care delivery in a specialist cancer surgery provider network: A qualitative study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To explore the processes, challenges and strategies used to govern and maintain inter-organisational collaboration between professionals in a provider network in London, United Kingdom, which implemented major system change focused on the centralisation of specialist cancer surgery.

Methods

We used a qualitative design involving interviews with stakeholders (n = 117), non-participant observations (n = 163) and documentary analysis (n = 100). We drew on an existing model of collaboration in healthcare organisations and expanded this framework by applying it to the analysis of collaboration in the context of major system change.

Results

Network provider organisations established shared goals, maintained central figures who could create and

SUBMITTER: Vindrola-Padros C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9277336 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature