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We caught up with the National Children and Young People’s Diabetes Network clinical lead, Fiona Campbell, to learn more about her network leadership style and explore how the network has been developing over the last few years.

Collaboration is in our DNA thanks to the evolutionary benefit that it gives us. Despite this collaboration in healthcare suggests evolutionary benefit isn’t enough in our complex world — when it’s not done well, it can be hard, messy and not as impactful as we hoped.

A lack of trust can cause a lot of heartache in life. But it is equally damaging if you are working collaboratively too. Here’s what George Dellal has to say about how to build stronger and more productive relationships.

At Kaleidoscope we specialise in the art and science of collaboration. We hold a firm belief that collaboration is the future of health and care, but not always, as Rich Taunt explains.

NHS trusts will soon need to join a provider collaborative, a move away from competition towards collaboration. But too much choice and ‘freedom’ to collaborate comes with risks - George Dellal explores some of the issues and outlines what makes for effective collaboration.

If we think of collaboration as enlightened self interest, then there is an argument that the reason we survived as the dominant species is because we collaborated.

'Collaboration' is the watchword in the NHS at the moment, whether through primary care networks, integrated care systems, or other three letter acronyms. So why is it the experience of many organisations that collaboration comes despite the policy context, rather than because of it?

How can we make collaboration effective if we're not sure how to go about collaborating well? Rich Taunt navigates his way out of the cul-de-sacs of conventional NHS wisdom on collaboration.

Exploitation, punishing schedules and some massive egos. Pop music and the NHS have more in common than you might think. We've just shared the characteristics of high performing collaborations, but how many of those characteristics are visible in the world of discos and divas?