The Community Health Partnerships are directly responsible for providing a wide range of local and community based services including local hospitals, community mental health teams, community nurses, midwives and health visitors, therapy teams such as physiotherapy, speech and language therapy, occupational therapy, nutrition and dietetics, podiatry/chiropody, and a range of specialist practitioners such as Macmillan nurses. Relatively few General Practitioners are directly managed by the CHPs, but they have an important contribution to the work of the CHP, and are very much part of the local CHP teams.

Each CHP has a General Manager who is supported by a CHP Management Team which includes a Clinical Director (usually a local GP), clinical leaders from other professional backgrounds, and officers who provide non clinical support services, such as personnel and finance. The Management Teams report to a CHP Governance Committee, which is Chaired by a non-executive member of the NHS Highland Board, and which has public members drawn from local communities through the Public Partnership Forums.

Some Highland wide services are “hosted” with a CHP. These hosted services each have their own management and leadership arrangements, but they report into the CHP General Manager, and the CHP Governance Committee. Hosted services are:

Ø   Marie Curie Service – North Highland CHP

Ø    Dental services (i.e. salaried NHS dentists only, plus their support staff) – South East    Highland CHP

Ø     Acute Mental Health and Learning Disability services (New Craigs)  - South East Highland CHP

Ø     Specialist sexual health services – Mid Highland CHP

Ø     Out of Hours service - Mid Highland CHP

People living in Argyll & Bute receive many of their acute and more specialist services from neighbouring NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde. The Argyll & Bute CHP purchases these services from NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde through formal contracts.