Kings Fund,1 July 2013
- This report, commissioned by the Foundation Trust Network (FTN) and the Association of Chief Executives of Voluntary Organisations (ACEVO), pulls together a wide range of innovative partnerships and projects between health trusts and voluntary sector providers across the country to consider how the barriers to effective partnership working can be overcome.
- Key findings
- Strategic leadership within local partner organisations will be vital to creating a supportive, enabling culture and to removing the barriers (real or perceived) to partnership working. But there is also a need for a national dialogue about how to develop new and innovative models of care.
- Locally led partnerships offer the opportunity to reduce fragmentation, drive efficiencies and deliver cost savings, and improve the patient experience. To work effectively together, trusts and voluntary sector providers need to establish clear roles and responsibilities, develop new skills to support a range of partnership models and governance structures, share risks and rewards, and develop business skills that can help deliver shared aims and improved outcomes.
