Template

Definition of a common statewide framework, which allows flexibility for adaptation to local needs. Templates incorporate a common data set and build on existing tools, guidelines and principles in order to provide a common basis to support functional integration.

Virtual Organisation

Virtual organisation arrangements consist of networks of workers and organisational units, linked by information and communication technologies, which flexibly coordinate their activities, and combine their skills and resources in order to achieve common goals but without traditional hierarchical modes of central direction or supervision. In the case of the Primary Care Partnership Strategy, a virtual organization is a partnership model whereby independent organisations work collaboratively and cohesively on a common, agreed basis. In this sense it refers to an organisational entity characterised by functional integration rather than organisational or administrative integration.