What is Community Health Partnerships?
Community Health Partnerships develops, creates investment in, and helps deliver innovative ways to improve health and local authority services. Its main activity has been to deliver the Local Improvement Finance Trust (LIFT) Initiative which provides clean, modern, purpose-built premises for health and local authority services in England. So far it has developed public-private partnerships to establish 49 LIFT companies, covering two thirds of England’s population. They have delivered over £2.2 billion of investment in more than 275 buildings that are either open or under construction. More recently, CHP has developed developing new models of public-private partnership, such as Community Ventures and Social Enterprises, to improve health and social care. CHP – known until autumn 2007 as Partnerships for Health – is an independent company, wholly owned by the Department of Health. Community Health Partnerships is a national organisation, rooted in local delivery of better community hea
