The need for health and social care agencies and their professionals to work in partnership is a central component of contemporary English health and social care policy. As in many other countries, partnership is predicated on the notion that this way of working improves services and outcomes for service users. However, as there is little evidence that partnerships improve service user outcomes...

Prudent health care policies that encourage public-private participation in health care financing and provisioning have conferred on Singapore the advantage of flexible response as it faces the potentially conflicting challenges of becoming a regional medical hub attracting foreign patients and ensuring domestic access to affordable health care. Both the external and internal health care market...

In 1997, the Kaiser Foundation Health Care and Hospitals, the Permanente Medical Federation, and a coalition of unions signed a national agreement creating one of the most ambitious labor management partnerships in U.S. history, initially covering some 58,000 employees. Based on field research and archival data, this paper analyzes the first eight years of this partnership in light of three str...

Through its partnership program with professional obstetrics and gynaecology associations in resource-poor environments, the Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada has developed a model for capacity assessment and development. The use of this model in Guatemala, Haiti, and Uganda has demonstrated its potential for facilitating cultural shifts in the perception of reproductive car...

BACKGROUND The Primary Community Care Network (PCCN) Demonstration Project, launched by the Bureau of National Health Insurance (BNHI) in 2003, is still in progress. Partnership structures in PCCNs represent both contractual clinic-to-clinic and clinic-to-hospital member relationships of organizational aspects. The partnership structures are the formal relationships between individuals and the ...

The objective of the article is to report an experience of partnership between a Psychosocial Care Center and three teams of the Family Health Program in the central region of São Paulo city. theoretical concepts like territory, subject, subjectivity/collective, receptiveness, bond, co-responsibility as well as the psychiatric and sanitary reform principles are the base and guide of this work. ...

Partnership working in palliative care is being increasingly promoted as the solution to poorly coordinated health and social care services. A key example is the UK National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) guidance on supportive and palliative care. However, partnerships have costs in negotiating, developing and maintaining working relationships and translating these into successful ou...

Parallel tetramolecular quadruplexes may be formed with short oligodeoxynucleotides bearing a block of three or more guanines. We analyze the properties of sequence variants of parallel quadruplexes in which each guanine of the central block was systematically substituted with a different base. Twelve types of substitutions were assessed in more than 100 different sequences. We conducted a comp...

The Deficit Reduction Act (DRA) of 2005 removed restrictions that had been in place since 1993 on new states who wished to develop Partnership for Long-Term Care programs. With these restrictions lifted, the DRA set the stage for Partnerships to expand to new states. To date, 18 new states, have received approval to implement Partnership programs. The new Partnership states are: Wisconsin have ...