Health and social care policy and workforce strategies during the past fifteen years have focused on improving services for those who use them. Central to this endeavour is the promotion of effective collaborative working between agencies and with patients/service users in order to provide an integrated service for service users and their carers. This agenda, rather than diminishing, is gaining impetus and calls for education and training that is genuinely multi- professional and enabling of professionals within and across services to work together effectively
This report describes the work and findings of a Department of Health funded project –
The Combined Universities Interprofessional Learning Unit (CUILU) – that aimed to implement and evaluate educational strategies that promote capabilities for collaborative working among undergraduate students of health and social care.