Evaluation of the UCLH-Macmillan Partnership to deliver improvements in the care, treatment, support, and information to patients with cancer throughout their individual journeys RAND Europe is an independent, not-for-profit policy research organisation that aims to improve policy and decisionmaking in the public interest through research and analysis. RAND's publications do not necessarily ref...

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In this paper, we deal with partnership among agents in an economic situation with different production skills and abilities where they are free to form coalitions, alliances or partnerships. And from the viewpoints of stability and efficiency we examine the resulting partnership structure. To take into account restrictions on partner selection, various production skills, and environmental chan...

Readers will find the following chapters: 1. Partnership working and organisational culture; 2. Interprofessional practice; 3. Partnership working: key concepts and approaches; 4. Key elements in effective partnership working; 5. Integrated service models: an exploration of North American models and lessons; 6. Working across the health and social care boundary; 7. Partnerships in the digital a...

recent Korean governments have attempted to use social partnership as a mechanism to achieve cooperative and peaceful industrial relations and to balance economic effi ciency with social equity in the context of globalisation. This paper has two aims. First it seeks to put the current social partnership experiment in historical perspective and argues that current developments in Korean industri...

OBJECTIVE This study explored associations among disease-management partnership functioning, synergy and effectiveness in the delivery of chronic-illness care. DESIGN This study had a cross-sectional design. SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS The study sample consists of 218 professionals (out of 393) participating in 22 disease-management partnerships in various regions of the Netherlands. MAIN OU...

Today, ‘partnership’ is one of the most popular words in the ‘development dictionary’. The original meaning, carved out of the ideology of alternative development – partnership as an act of solidarity – has been hijacked by a new rationale: revisionist neo-liberalism. Here, ‘partnership’ acts as a means for efficiency. With the two models operating side-by-side in reality, the line between them...

The expansion of legal rights to same-sex couples is afoot in a number of Western countries. The effects of this roll-out are not only important in their own right but can also provide a window on the institution of marriage and the rights bundled therein. In this paper, using Swedish longitudinal register data covering the period 1994-2007, we study the impact of the extension of rights to sam...

PURPOSE To investigate how a partnership between labor and management works to change the organization and focus of nursing home frontline work, supporting a transition toward person-centered care (PCC) in participating nursing homes. DESIGN AND METHODS Using a participatory research approach, we conducted case studies of 2 nursing homes participating in a partnership between a labor union an...

Most large UK private-sector organisations are listed companies that are subject to intense pressures to enhance shareholder value. The question arises of whether this constrains the ability of UK managers to pursue genuine partnership arrangements with long-term stakeholders, including employees. Empirical evidence is presented in the form of case studies of partnership relations between labou...