Table 3.

Attributes of partnership and collaboration.

	Partnership	Collaboration
Defining attributes	Trust and confidence in accountability	Trust and respect in collaborators
	Respect for specialist expertise	Joint venture
	Joint working	Teamwork
	Teamwork	Intellectual and cooperative endeavour
	Blurring of professional boundaries	Knowledge and expertise more important than role or title
	Members of partnerships share the same vested interests	Participation in planning and decision making
	Appropriate governance structures	Non-hierarchical relationship
	Common goals	Sharing of expertise
	Transparent lines of communication within and between partner agencies	Willingness to work together towards an agreed purpose
	Agreement about the objectives	Partnership
	Reciprocity	Interdependency
	Empathy	Highly connected network
		Low expectation of reciprocation

Reproduced with permission from [29].