Abstract
‘Patient’ power’, ‘user direction’, ‘client participation’ and other examples of the rise of consumerism in health and social services are not a passing fashion. Patients, clients and carers (in the following — ‘people’) expect to be fully informed about treatments and services, and to have a greater say in decisions previously made by professionals. Although many professionals pretend that these changes are not happening, some radical and some not so radical professionals have encouraged these changes in their work settings. However, there has been little consideration of how these changes may affect interprofessional working, or whether ‘participation’ is itself affected by closer interprofessional cooperation. Exceptions are discussions and reports by Steinberg (1992), Meyer (1993), and Briggs (1993).
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Øvretveit, J. (1997). How Patient Power and Client Participation affects Relations between Professions. In: Øvretveit, J., Mathias, P., Thompson, T. (eds) Interprofessional Working for Health and Social Care. Community Health Care Series. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-13873-9_5
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