Partnership Approach and Tools

Now, more than ever, we need strate­gies to strength­en our health­care sys­tem, inno­vate and solve ​“wicked prob­lems”. Col­lab­o­ra­tive part­ner­ships can deliv­er excep­tion­al out­comes when planned and man­aged well.

Part­ner­ships are inte­gral to the CEIH’s work, bring­ing togeth­er dif­fer­ent organ­i­sa­tions and stake­hold­ers with a shared goal.

To sup­port the South Aus­tralian health­care sec­tor broad­ly, we are now shar­ing our Part­ner­ship Approach and a suite of sup­port­ing tools for oth­er organ­i­sa­tions to use.

Build­ing qual­i­ty part­ner­ships in the health­care sec­tor describes the CEIH’s approach to part­ner­ships, includ­ing the part­ner­ship process in detail.

Stages in the part­ner­ship process

Partnership process diagram

Detailed ver­sion of the Part­ner­ship Process includes hyper­links to tools rec­om­mend­ed for use through each stage. (641KB PDF)

Please see Build­ing qual­i­ty part­ner­ships in the health­care sec­tor for detailed descrip­tions of each stage of this process mod­el and the foun­da­tion­al part­ner­ship skills.

Why partner?

Work­ing col­lab­o­ra­tive­ly with diverse part­ners allows for the shar­ing of knowl­edge, skills, influ­ence and resources to inno­vate and achieve out­comes beyond what an organ­i­sa­tion could achieve on its own. Impor­tant­ly, work­ing in part­ner­ship can increase the reach, impact and sus­tain­abil­i­ty of health outcomes.

Break­ing down tra­di­tion­al ​‘silos’ and suc­cess­ful­ly join­ing up activ­i­ties takes focus and effort but is becom­ing increas­ing­ly foun­da­tion­al in lead­ing health­care organ­i­sa­tions around the world. 

Please see Build­ing qual­i­ty part­ner­ships in the health­care sec­tor for more.

Attributes for quality partnerships
attributes

Attrib­ut­es — plain text (91KB PDF)

Please see Build­ing qual­i­ty part­ner­ships in the health­care sec­tor for more infor­ma­tion on devel­op­ing attrib­ut­es for suc­cess across all process stages.

Sup­port­ing tools 

A set of sup­port­ing tools have been devel­oped as a com­pan­ion to the part­ner­ship process. These include:

Part­ner readi­ness analy­sis (3.9 MB Word)

Part­ner­ship agree­ment tem­plate (4.9 MB Word)

Col­lab­o­ra­tive action plan (3.8 MB Word)

Quick guide to nur­tur­ing part­ner­ships (428 KB PDF)

Part­ner­ship pulse check (660 KB PDF)

Part­ner­ship pulse check review and action plan (4 MB Word)

Attrib­ut­es for qual­i­ty part­ner­ships (405 KB PDF)

Please see Build­ing qual­i­ty part­ner­ships in the health­care sec­tor for detail on the stages where tools are rec­om­mend­ed for use.