Always necessitates collaboration between professionals in order to provide the highest quality of care. Interprofessional work promotes the understanding of the professions’ roles and the learning of each other, as well as from service users and carers, this ensures the entire benefit of the collaboration is attained. It’s crucial to both education and practice for today’s professionals. Interprofessional Working in Health and Social Care discusses the cause, importance and necessary conditions for interprofessional work. Additionally, it provides an overview of the roles and perspectives of different healthcare professionals across a broad range of expertise: education, housing, medicine, midwifery, nursing, occupational therapy, physiotherapy, police, probation, radiography, social work and youth work. The second edition: Offers a broad variety of case studies from different fields and settings that are approved of by the mental health profession. This will be resolved as quickly as possible on the next print run and the e-book version will have been corrected.

Introduction:

collaboration between healthcare professionals is imperative to provide the most effective care and services to patients. Interprofessional Working in Health and Social Care, authored by Judith Thomas, Katherine Pollard, and Derek Sellman, is intended to provide assistance with the implementation of interprofessional collaboration, including the necessary skills, conditions, and rationale. This resource describes the various functions and perspectives of numerous healthcare professionals across a broad spectrum of expertise, including education, housing, medicine, midwifery, nursing, occupational therapy, physiotherapy, police, probation, social work and youth work.

Key Benefits:

• Summarizes the most important aspects of interprofessional collaboration in healthcare and social care.

• Describe the different perspectives and roles of healthcare professionals in different professions.

Includes case studies that are both entertaining and reflective, these will help students and professionals learn.

• Investigates new and emerging professions in the healthcare sector, including approved mental health professionals and specialist paramedics.

Target audience:

The book is intended for students and professionals in different healthcare and social care fields. It’s a beneficial resource for anyone interested in learning about the interprofessional and interagency collaboration.

Conclusion:

The Interprofessional Working in Health and Social Care facilitates the necessary skills and knowledge for healthcare professionals wishing to collaborate to provide effective and efficient services and care. This second edition contains new content that is relevant and up-to-date in regards to current trends and the changing nature of healthcare, it is essential to all healthcare professionals.