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Author (up) Higgins, A. url  openurl
  Title Collaboration to improve health provision: Advancing nursing practice and interdisciplinary relationships Type Book Chapter
  Year 2008 Publication Jean Ross (Ed.), Rural nursing: Aspects of practice (pp. 215-223) Abbreviated Journal Ministry of Health publications page  
  Volume Issue Pages  
  Keywords Interprofessional relations; Rural health services; Nursing; Policy  
  Abstract This chapter introduces national policies and strategies that promote interdisciplinary collaboration as a means of providing better access to health care for all communities. It identifies a role for advancing nursing practice as part of a collaborative approach to healthcare in rural areas. An increasing focus on collaboration as a concept within health practice during the last 10 years has become evident in policy documents from the Report of the Ministerial Taskforce on Nursing (Ministry of Health, 1998) to the Working Party for After Hours Primary Health Care (Ministry of Health, 2005). The emphasis would seem to be in response to political pressure to address health inequalities and an apparent assumption that interprofessional collaboration results in improved communication, fewer gaps in provision of care and more effective use of the limited health funds.  
  Call Number NRSNZNO @ research @ 779 Serial 763  
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