Collaborating with other healthcare services

Improving access to healthcare services for children with developmental disabilities across the healthcare journey cannot be achieved by one healthcare professional alone. Only by working with other healthcare service providers can access be improved.

In this step, Nathaniel Scherer (LSHTM) explains why collaboration is needed, before discussing Himmelman’s framework of collaboration, a simple model for understanding how services can work together.

In the next step, we will ask you to discuss collaboration in your setting and think about the changes that can be made to promote a greater level of collaboration between service providers.