Community Health Partnership

Community Health Partnerships, known as CHPs (pronounced Chips) are subdivisions of Health Boards in Scotland.

CHPs typically are co-terminous with council areas and represent a district or area within one of the 14 Scottish Health Board regions. However, this is not always strictly the case (see below).

The two Lanarkshire CHPs are co-terminous with the North and South Lanarkshire council boundaries and, as a result, incorporate some population from NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde as well as the NHS Lanarkshire catchment area. The North Lanarkshire CHP includes a population of approximately 16,500 from the Chryston, Moodiesburn, Muirhead and Stepps districts of NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde.

The South Lanarkshire CHP includes a population of approximately 55,000 from the Cambuslang and Rutherglen areas of NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde.

The following council areas each contain several CHPs: City of Glasgow, Fife, Highland.

CHPs have four roles within their locality:

• To deliver primary care services, including community mental health and sexual health services
• To work with social services to provide social care
• To promote health improvement
• To influence strategic planning, including the primary-secondary care interface

List of Community Health Partnerships

Note: In some areas, CHPs are known as Community Health and Care Partnerships (CHCPs).

• East Ayrshire CHP
• North Ayrshire CHP
• South Ayrshire CHP
• Scottish Borders CHCP
• Dumfries and Galloway CHP
• Dunfermline and West Fife CHP (Within Fife Council Area)
• Glenrothes and North East Fife CHP (Within Fife Council Area)
• Kirkcaldy and Levenmouth CHP (Within Fife Council Area)
• Clackmannanshire CHP
• Falkirk CHP
• Stirling CHP
• Aberdeen City CHP
• Aberdeenshire CHP
• Moray Community Health & Social Care Partnership (MCHSCP)
• East Dunbartonshire CHP
• East Renfrewshire CHCP
• Glasgow City CHP - North East Sector
• Glasgow City CHP - North West Sector
• Glasgow City CHP - South Sector
• Inverclyde CHP
• Renfrewshire CHP
• West Dunbartonshire CHP
• Argyll and Bute CHP
• Highland CHP - Mid Sector
• Highland CHP - North Sector
• Highland CHP - South East Sector
• North Lanarkshire CHP
• South Lanarkshire CHP
• East Lothian CHP
• Edinburgh CHP
• Midlothian CHP
• West Lothian CHCP
• Orkney CHP
• Shetland CHP
• Angus CHP
• Dundee CHP
• Perth and Kinross CHP
• Western Isles CHP

Further reading

Petch, A. (2006) Health and Social Care: Establishing a Joint Future? Edinburgh, Dunedin Academic Press ISBN 978-1-903765-73-9