Networks form an innovative organisation offering services to patients while trying to clarify the mechanisms of cooperation between professionals.
Standardization could thus reduce the importance of mutual trust as the basis for cooperation between professionals [11].
The practice nurse as part of a general practice is case manager and plans, organizes and monitors the care process and facilitates cooperation between professionals.
Implementation of a common IT solution to which all relevant health professionals and social workers had access was the most frequently mentioned suggestion for facilitating cooperation between professionals.
Our findings suggest that cooperation between professionals may be discouraged by the national drive to increase recruitment through competition, benchmarking, and 'payment by [recruitment] results'.
Local cooperation (between professionals and institutions), which should be as fluent and conflict-free as possible, requires a formal institutional framework, the details of which should help everyone to understand each other's roles.
Although women made many positive comments about the cooperation between professionals, their remarks showed that information gets lost sometimes during handover of care between caregivers within and between primary and secondary care.
As many consultations of specialists end with recommendations for further diagnostics and/or drug prescriptions, problems of guidance, documentation, coordination and cooperation between professionals arise, for which tools and routines are largely lacking.
The questionnaire covered the following aspects of ambulatory care in dementia: general attitude towards dementia care, detection process, disclosure of diagnosis, therapy options, interaction with caregivers, the value of self-help services, the interest in guidelines and continuing education, and cooperation between professionals.
The importance of professional cooperation between health professionals in SL has also been suggested [ 4, 6].
Care as usual does not include multidisciplinary coordination or cooperation between these professionals, organizations and professionals.
