Partnership working and improved service delivery: views of staff providing sexual health services.

Objectives: Successful partnership working has theoretically been linked to improvements in service delivery and is dependent on the strength of the partnership, trust, communication, professional roles and resource sharing. Empirical evidence to confirm the relationships between these factors and improved service provision, however, is lacking. Our aim was to assess the views of staff as to the conditions required for partnership working.

Peer supervision: an experimental scheme for nurse lecturers.

This paper reports on the implementation of a scheme of peer supervision in a team of mental health nursing lecturers working within a university setting. The rationale for the introduction of this scheme was the implementation of clinical supervision in nursing nationally and the role nurse education can play in this. Supervision is advocated as a way of providing education, support and quality checks for lecturers involved in supervising students.