Inter-Agency Cooperation: Health and Social Services — An Occupational Therapy Perspective

Articles concerned with cooperation between health and social services often concentrate on problems and failings. Also, they are rarely based on direct research. This article offers ideas on the factors that assist cooperation, which have been gathered from involved professionals. It gives the results of a questionnaire completed by community occupational therapy managers, which sought their views on the relative importance of these factors. It also gives some interesting insights into how nurses, social workers and doctors are viewed by the same group.