This Institute podcast: Relationships and rituals in healthcare teams (21 March 2025)

Summary

Increasingly, healthcare staff are working in teams with many different professionals across different settings, but they may not have been trained to do this. What does research tell us about what makes such teams work well or better? What kind of challenges are presented in shared or integrated care?

• What is the glue that holds teams together and why is it so important?
• How can we improve the process of patient referrals from one part of the system to another?
• What did we learn from pandemic about new ways of working together, within and across services?

Host Tara Lamont and guests Jenelle Clarke, Sarah Yardley and Justin Waring share their experience and insights on building relationships across interdisciplinary teams.