ABSTRACT
The imperative for ‘joined-up working’ in health and social care is fundamental to the ‘modernisation’ agenda for health and social-care policy in the UK (Department of Health 2000a) and has led to the need to promote skills and knowledge for inter-professional practice at all stages of professional education and training (Barr 1998). A wide range of approaches to developing inter-professional practice can be identified involving practice based and ‘formal’ education opportunities at all stages of the professional development continuum. Within preregistration education the majority of these incorporate inter-professional learning as one component of the overall curriculum alongside a primarily uniprofessional approach.
