These are the participants who became co-researchers with us:
They held posts as:
• Manager of a Community Mental Health Team within a large Mental Health Trust, working with homeless people with mental health problems, and developing a partnership with the Police through the Police Liaison Committee, of which she became chair. See ‘Always on a catch-up’: joint working across the police and mental health
• Intermediate Care Manager jointly employed by the Primary Care Trust and the local authority, integrating 3 services for older people See 'Everybody wants it, it’s just getting there'
• Sure Start Programme Director, setting up Sure Start and the transition to a Children’s Centre. See ‘Keeping the essence’.
• Commissioner of services for people with learning disabilities, letting the new contract for day services See ‘Not letting the cat out of the bag’: Externalising day services for people with learning disabilities’
• A nurse adviser building a partnership with private sector residential care homes as ‘teaching homes’ – see : ‘It has to come from them’
• A local authority officer, managing an inspection unit, which was about to merge with inspection units across health and social care – see ‘Actually getting together’
• A specialist nurse working with people with learning disabilities, trying for joint work across sectors - see 'We will never backbite..'
• A general manager of specialist services in an acute trust, setting up a new cross-professional management team– see ‘Settling for the best you can get’
• A training manager, briefed to develop an education strategy for a new primary care trust – see 'Keeping partners involved'
• A locality manager of older people's mental health services, working to build a partnership with social care – see 'The service with an inferiority complex'
