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Partner or perish: experiences from the field about collaborations for reform

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posted on 2023-05-17, 02:15 authored by Boyer, K, Orpin, P, Judith WalkerJudith Walker
Collaborations between researchers, policy makers, service providers and community members are critical to the journey of health service reform. Challenges are multifaceted and complex. Partners come with a variety of challenging agendas, value sets and imperatives, and see the drivers for reform from different perspectives. Different skills are required for managing the partnership and for providing academic leadership, and different structural frameworks need to be put in place for each task in each project.Wehave found through a series of partnerships across our research theme of healthy ageing, and consequent translation into policy and practice, that significant and innovative effort is required for both the collaboration and the research to succeed.Ashared understanding of the issues and challenges is a start, but not sufficient for longer-term success. In addition to managing the research, our experience has demonstrated the need to understand the different challenges faced by each of the partners, recognise and respect personal and organisational value systems, and to establish separate mechanisms to manage strong egos alongside, but outside of, the research process.

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Publication title

Australian Journal of Primary Health

Volume

16

Pagination

104-107

ISSN

1448-7527

Department/School

School of Health Sciences

Publisher

CSIRO Publishing

Place of publication

Melbourne

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Copyright © 2010 CSIRO

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Health policy evaluation

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