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Factors influencing partnerships between higher education and healthcare
Arja Häggman-Laitila1, Leena Rekola2
1University of Eastern Finland, Kuopion kampus, PO Box 1627, FIN-70211 Kuopio, Finland.
Objective:
The aim of this study was to describe the factors influencing partnerships between higher education and healthcare.
Background:
Partnerships have often been studied as organisations' internal processes or multi-professional team activities. However, there has been less research on the partnership as a phenomenon between organisations and, until now, the research has mainly focused on experiences in the US and the UK.
Setting, Participants And Methods:
The study was carried out in Finland. Staff from a university of applied sciences and a service unit for the elderly took part in nine focus group interviews (n=39) and produced self-evaluations based on diaries (n=13) and essays (n=24). The data were analysed by qualitative content analysis.
Results:
The factors influencing partnerships were: a joint development target, agreeing on collaboration, providing resources for partnership, enhancing mutual understanding, sharing operational culture, commitment and participatory change management and communication.
Conclusions:
This study updates, and complements, previous reviews on factors influencing partnerships, by providing some new concepts and a new cultural perspective from Finland on a partnership between higher education and healthcare. The results provide information on factors that influence partnerships and develop and manage their sustainability.
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