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In England and Wales there are an unacceptably large number of people in prison or in contact with the criminal justice system who have mental health issues.  Integrated and effective interagency collaboration is required between the criminal justice system and mental health services to ensure early diagnosis, treatment, appropriate sentencing or diversion of these individuals from the criminal justice systems into mental health services.   Diversion and liaison schemes are proposed as a means to integrated service provision through positioning mental health professionals within the crimina

Maximizing Your ROI: Collaboration and Quality in Distance Learning

Faculty Shortages Across the Health Professions: Implications for Teaching and Workforce

In recent years, health professions educators and administrators have increasingly witnessed and have thus begun attempting to address faculty shortages across the spectrum of health professions, perhaps most acutely in allied health, dentistry, nursing and pharmacy. The development of new curricula and the aspiration to expand community-based education have exacerbated concerns about adequate, qualified faculty.

The following report shares a series of recommendations from national experts on care coordination from across the health professions convened over a two-year period as part of the NYAM Initiative on Interprofessional Care Coordination, a project Macy has funded since 2011.The recommendations address the issues of how to operationalize effective interprofessional care coordination practice models in new and future health care delivery systems, and how to incorporate interprofessional educational and team training for care coordination into pre-clinical and clinical training.

Transforming Patient Care: Aligning Interprofessional Education with Clinical Practice Redesign outlines a series of recommendations to align healthcare education and practice, providing immediate action steps to link interprofessional education and collaborative care.

The recommendations stem from a January 2013 Macy Conference where leaders in health professions education and healthcare delivery came together to discuss how they might align their efforts.

In April 2012, the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation convened all of its grantees working in IPE.

This monograph provides an overview of the working sessions, panel discussions and summaries of the grantees’ IPE work.

Conference proceedings from the Team-Based Competencies: Building a Shared Foundation For Education and Clinical Practice conference. The conference took place February 16-17, 2011 in Washington, D.C. and was hosted by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) and co-sponsored by the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation, the ABIM Foundation, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

This report outlines an action plan to solidify team-based competencies and advance interprofessional education.

In June 2010, the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation and The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching hosted a workshop/conference in Palo Alto, CA to advance new models for inter-professional education within the nation’s academic health centers. The two foundations believe that if nursing, medical, and other health professions students learn jointly in clinical settings, as graduates they will improve patient outcomes by working more collaboratively, communicating better with each other, and fostering a health care delivery system that assures quality and patient safety.

Malcolm Cox, MD and Mary Naylor, PhD, RN, FAAN chaired the January 2013 conference whose proceedings are recorded in this report.

As health professions education and healthcare delivery undergo rapid change, stimulated in part by the Affordable Care Act, it is critical that they not be developed in isolation. Educational reform must incorporate practice redesign, and delivery system change must include a central educational mission for transformation to endure.

Core recommendations: