Reinterpreting professional relationships in healthcare: the question of collaboration

With this book we are opening the door to an amazing, complex and dynamic landscape of collaboration and collaborating in professional practice and development. Though our contention that no single approach fits all circumstances and conditions, we recognise that collaboration, the <i>phenomenon</i> explored in this collection of research and practice-based journeys, is best if enacted as an inherently <i>situationally appropriate</i> practice. Collaboration is a <i>lived phenomenon</i> in that it is understood, enacted and experienced differently by different people. Collaboration among healthcare staff is the context for the various journeys reported in this book