Answer» What is Community Health Partnership mean?
Community Health Partnerships, known as CHPs (pronounced Chips) were subdivisions of Health Boards in Scotland, from 2005 to 2015, after which their functions were fully taken over by Health and Social Care Partnerships in April 2015.
CHPs had four roles within their locality:
To deliver primary care services, including community mental health and sexual health servicesTo work with social services to provide social careTo promote health improvementTo influence strategic planning, including the primary-secondary care interface reference
