title: Understanding the barriers to multiprofessional collaboration.
abstract: Multiprofessional collaboration is key to delivering quality patient care. Many developments in health care such as supplementary prescribing or the single assessment process rely on the premise that such collaboration already exists. This article focuses on barriers to interprofessional collaboration and explores whether 'new ways of working' in health care can survive in an environment with a long history of independent disciplines.
authors.forename: Gloria
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Daly
mesh_terms: D003142:Communication; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D019033:Delivery of Health Care, Integrated / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations