Communities of Practice in Health and Social Care

Chapter 1 Introducing Communities of Practice.

Andrée le May.

Part 2 Getting started.

Chapter 2 The EXTRA Community of Practice: Incubating change.

Nina Stipich, Jane Coutts and Mireille Brosseau.

Chapter 3 The Interior Health Nurse Practitioner Community of Practice – Facilitating NP Integration in a Regional Health Authority.

Linda Sawchenko.

Chapter 4 Developing Dermatology Outpatient Services through a Community of Practice.

Judith Lathlean and Michelle Myall.

Part 3 Generating professional and patient capital.

Chapter 5 Practice made perfect: discovering the roles of a community of general practice.

John Gabbay and Andrée le May.

Chapter 6 Learning nursing in the workplace community.

Mary Gobbi.

Chapter 7 Communities of practice and learning health practice in developing countries.

Alex le May.

Chapter 8 Generating patient capital: the contribution of story telling in Communities of Practice designed to develop older people’s services.

Andrée le May.

Part 4 So what?.

Chapter 9 What works, what counts and what matters? Communities of Practice as a locus for contributing to resource allocation decisions.

Helen Roberts, Alan Shiell and Madeleine Stevens.

Chapter 10 Where does this get us and where will we go from here?.

Andrée le May