CHPs

CHPs

There are 34 Community Health Partnerships (CHPs) in Scotland, covering 14 Health Boards and 32 councils. A CHP is a committee of the Health Board which develops local community health services, in partnership with their local authority partners ensuring that health and social care services are integrated and seamless.

CHPs are co-terminus with local authority boundaries and develop community health and social care services on behalf of Health Boards and Local Authorities.  The Scottish Government has highlighted the importance of involving local people within the work and services managed by the CHPs.  Through Public Partnership Forums (PPF), the local community, voluntary sector representatives, patients and carers and are able to be kept informed and get involved in health and social care issues which may concern them.  A list of PPF contact details can be found on the Scottish Health Council’s website.

Additionally, CHPs support the delivery of HEAT targets and Single Outcome Agreements, as well as working to improve the relationship between primary and secondary care and tackling health inequalities in local communities.

CHP OUTCOMES

CHPs play a central role in improving the health of the local communities and delivering better services and care for local people.

Building on the direction of travel, previously set out at the inception of the CHPs, the priority areas expected to be addressed are based on three key policy areas:

  • A shifting of the balance of care to more local settings;
  • Reducing health inequalities; and
  • Improvement in the health of local people.

Within that overall agenda, the specific priority areas are:-

  1. Better access to Primary Care Services
  2. Taking a systematic approach to long term conditions
  3. Anticipatory care
  4. Supporting people at home
  5. Preventing avoidable hospital admissions
  6. More local diagnosis and treatment
  7. Enabling discharge and rehabilitation
  8. Improving specific health outcomes
  9. Improving health and tackling inequalities

CHPs/CHCPs/CHSCPs

To better emphasise partnership working, some local areas refer to their CHP as Community Health and Care Partnerships (CHCPs) and Community Health and Social Care Partnerships (CHSCPs), all of which incorporate care and health services.  For further information regarding individual CHPs please refer to the CHP map.

ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY HEALTH PARTNERSHIPS

The Association of Community Health Partnerships (ACHP) aims to support CHPs and CHCPs in delivering their agenda on the work they progress in Scotland. They help to share best practice as well as coordinating an annual conference. The Chair of the ACHP is Julie Murray and can be contacted at Julie.murray@eastrenfrewshire.gov.uk

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