Commission on Excellence and Innovation in Health

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, see our current partners.

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.

Our Partnership Approach: 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 our Partnership Approach: 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 Part­ner­ship Approach: Build­ing qual­i­ty part­ner­ships in the health­care sec­tor for more.

Attributes for quality partnerships
attributes

Attrib­ut­es — plain text (91KB PDF)

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

Supporting tools