title: Interprofessional workplace learning: a catalyst for strategic change?
abstract: The integrated care development programme (ICDP) was a continuing interprofessional educational programme for health and social care managers and commissioners. Multi-professional strategic teams from a single locality participated in university and workplace-based learning activities centred on the development of an integrated business plan to address a local priority for improvement. The evaluation used participant self-assessment, semi-structured interviews and group discussions to assess achievement of expected impacts on the participants, their organisations and partnerships, and patient/service user outcomes. The findings indicate that whilst those employed in management and commissioning roles had considerable experience of working across professional and agency boundaries they derived individual benefits from a workplace IPE programme. The principles of design and delivery developed in pre-registration and clinician/practitioner IPE courses also applied to those working at a more strategic level. Organisational impacts were reported, but 6 months post-programme evidence was not yet available of significant improvements in patient outcomes and /or financial efficiencies. Individual motivation, team dynamics and support from line managers all affected the extent to which individual and organisational impacts were achieved.
authors.affiliation: Health Services Management Centre, University of Birmingham , Edgbaston, Birmingham , UK.
authors.forename: Robin
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Miller
authors.forename: Gill
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Combes
authors.forename: Hilary
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Brown
authors.forename: Alys
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Harwood
mesh_terms: D019033:Delivery of Health Care, Integrated; D004496:Education, Continuing; D006801:Humans; D007318:Inservice Training; D033183:Interdisciplinary Communication; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D007858:Learning; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D016730:Program Development; D036301:Qualitative Research; D017132:Workplace