Interdisciplinary team working in the Irish primary healthcare system: Analysis of ‘invisible’ bottom up innovations using Normalisation Process Theory

Edel Tierney, Ailish Hannigan, Libby Kinneen, Carl May, O’Sullivan, Madeleine, Rachael King, Norelee Kennedy and Anne MacFarlane

Health Policy, 2019, vol. 123, issue 11, 1083-1092

Abstract: Interdisciplinary team working in primary care is a key policy goal across healthcare jurisdictions. The National Primary Care Strategy (2001) in Ireland is a top down policy for primary healthcare reform, which prioritised the development and implementation of interdisciplinary Primary Care Teams. The number of Primary Care Teams and features of their clinical meetings have been the key metric in Ireland for appraising progress with the implementation of the strategy. However, these have been challenging to organise in practice. The aim of this paper is to analyse empirical evidence of other forms of interdisciplinary working in Irish primary care, using Normalisation Process Theory.

Keywords: Policy implementation; Primary health care; Innovation; Interdisciplinary team working; Primary care teams; Normalisation Process Theory (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2019.09.002

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