Perception of health professionals about shared care between primary care and home care

to understand how health professionals perceive the shared care between the teams of Primary Health Care and Home Care Service.

descriptive study, with a qualitative approach, carried out with 17 professionals, in the municipality of Campo Grande, MS. Data were collected from August to October 2019, through semi-structured audio-recorded interviews and submitted to content analysis.

lack of knowledge, lack of qualification, lack of ordering of care and weakness in counter-referral were some of the challenges mentioned for shared care. However, interinstitutional visits, communication, discussion of cases, action planning, were perceived as strategies to carry it out.

professionals perceive that home care is permeated by limitations and weaknesses in relation to the effectuation of shared care between the different health teams.