We would like to acknowledge the following members of our Advisory Group who supported the research project:
Sarah Morgan (chairperson) (Director of the South East London ICS Workforce Programme and Director of Organisational Development Guys and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust)
Ron Agble (Director of Partnerships and Transactions, Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust)
Steve Beales (Assistant Director, North East London Health and Care Partnership)
Andrew Corbett-Nolan (Chief Executive, Good Governance Institute)
Sonia Dalkin (Associate Professor, Northumbria University)
Miriam Deakin (NHS Providers)
Tim Gardner (The Health Foundation)
Josie Harding (Head of Insight and Evaluation, Mid and South Essex Hospitals Group)
Sandra Haynes (Lead Governor, University Hospitals Birmingham)
Tom Howell (Head of Mental Health Provider Collaborative Development, NHS Birmingham and Solihull Clinical Commissioning Group)
Chris Smith (Good Governance Institute)
Mark Stafford (Partner, The Berkeley Partnership)
Leanora Volpe (NHS Providers)
Charlotte Williams (Chief Strategy and Improvement Officer, Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust).
Contributions of authors
Ross Millar (https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5790-7947) (Reader, Health Organisation) was the principal investigator responsible for managing the project, supported the realist synthesis, conducted qualitative data collection and analysis, supported the development of practice-based tools and led the final report write-up.
Justin Avery Aunger (https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6975-4570) (Research Fellow) led the realist synthesis, prepared results for publication, conducted qualitative data collection and analysis, supported the development of practice-based tools and drafted chapters of the final report.
Anne Marie Rafferty (https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1010-6581) (Professor, Nursing Policy) conducted qualitative data collection and analysis, and contributed to editing the final report.
Joanne Greenhalgh (https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2189-8879) (Professor, Applied Social Research Methodology) conducted realist synthesis development and analysis, and contributed to editing the final report.
Russell Mannion (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0680-8049) (Professor, Health Systems) provided analytical support and contributed to editing the final report.
Hugh McLeod (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2266-7303) (Senior Lecturer, Health Economics) provided analytical support and contributed to editing the final report.
Deborah Faulks (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2825-7268) (Engaging Communities Solutions) conducted data collection with patient representatives.
Publications
Aunger JA, Millar R, Greenhalgh J. When trust, confidence, and faith collide: refining a realist theory of how and why inter-organisational collaborations in healthcare work. BMC Health Serv Res 2021;21:602.
Aunger JA, Millar R, Greenhalgh J, Mannion R, Rafferty AM, McLeod H. Why do some inter-organisational collaborations in healthcare work when others do not? A realist review. Syst Rev 2021;10:82.
Aunger JA, Millar R, Rafferty AM, Mannion R. Collaboration over competition? Regulatory reform and inter-organisational relations in the NHS amidst the COVID-19 pandemic: a qualitative study. BMC Health Serv Res 2022;22:640.
Aunger JA, Millar R, Rafferty AM, Mannion R, Greenhalgh J, Faulks D, et al. How, when, and why do inter-organisational collaborations in healthcare work? A realist evaluation [published online ahead of print April 11 2022]. PLOS ONE 2022.
Data-sharing statement
All data requests should be submitted to the corresponding author for consideration.
Disclaimers
This report presents independent research funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR). The views and opinions expressed by authors in this publication are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of the NHS, the NIHR, the HSDR programme or the Department of Health and Social Care. If there are verbatim quotations included in this publication the views and opinions expressed by the interviewees are those of the interviewees and do not necessarily reflect those of the authors, those of the NHS, the NIHR, the HSDR programme or the Department of Health and Social Care.