ABSTRACT
In this chapter we discuss a particular kind of interprofessional collaboration. It involves working outside established organisational practices, negotiating the nature of the task, and coordinating responses. Collaboration therefore occurs as tasks are recognised and analysed as well as during the processes of responding to them; it does not simply arise once one profession has made a diagnosis and then calls on others to do what they are asked to do as in the case of NetWORKing (Nardi et al., 2002). We draw primarily on a study of interprofessional practice in the welfare professions, but think that this particularly challenging, yet creative, notion of interprofessional work has wider relevance.
