Collaborative capacity
Different NHS organisations band together to solve a shared problem
Collaborative capacity is an operating pattern where multiple NHS organisations or teams pool resources to build shared solutions to common problems. Rather than each trust or Integrated Care Board independently commissioning similar work - duplicating effort, fragmenting expertise and limiting what is achievable within any single organisation’s budget - this pattern enables organisations to fund a single, dedicated multidisciplinary team with collective governance and shared ownership of the output. The solutions developed are open source, ensuring that the investment benefits the wider system and that participating organisations retain genuine control rather than creating new dependencies.
NHS examples
Non-NHS examples
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