Health care and social care in the UK, as elsewhere, is increasingly expected to organise its service delivery in inter-professional arrangements. A burgeoning body of research on this work is examining the different forms that inter-professional practice actually takes. This marks a distinct departure from an early unitary view of the demands of interprofessional practice (IPP), with corresponding universal prescriptions for the sorts of inter-professional skills that were imagined to be

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... 1 . Instead, we are now seeing more helpful analyses of inter-professional practice differentiated by dynamics such as the temporal duration of the teams involved (from quick assemblages for a single activity to institutional agreements for long-term partnership), the nature and location of the activity, the unique practices and structures of the particular professional disciplines involved, or the institutional levels involved shaping the inter-professional negotiations (Collin et al