National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978

[F1 4A Community health partnerships S

(1) Every Health Board shall establish, in accordance with a scheme under section 4B approved by the Scottish Ministers (an “approved scheme”)—

(a) a community health partnership for the area of the Board, or

(b) two or more community health partnerships for districts which, taken together, include the whole area of the Board.

(2) Community health partnerships shall be established as committees or sub-committees of a Health Board.

(3) Where the area or district of a community health partnership includes all or part of the areas of two or more Health Boards, the community health partnership (a “joint community health partnership”) shall be established jointly by those Boards in accordance with their approved schemes.

(4) Joint community health partnerships shall be established as joint committees of the Health Boards by which they are established.

(5) The functions of a community health partnership are—

(a) to co-ordinate, for its area or district, the planning, development and provision of—

(i) such of the services which it is the function of its Health Board to provide, or secure the provision of, as may be prescribed by regulations under section 4B(6) or specified in the approved scheme, and

(ii) such other of those services as its Health Board may specify,

with a view to improving those services,

(b) to provide, or secure the provision of—

(i) such of the services which it is the function of its Health Board to provide, or secure the provision of, as may be prescribed by regulations under section 4B(6) or specified in the approved scheme, and

(ii) such other of those services as its Health Board may specify, and

(c) to exercise such other functions of its Health Board—

(i) as may be prescribed by regulations under section 4B(6),

(ii) as may be specified in the approved scheme,

(iii) as the Health Board may delegate to it.

(6) In this section, references to the Health Board of a joint community health partnership are to each of the Health Boards by which it was established.]

Textual Amendments

F1 Ss. 4A, 4B inserted (1.9.2004 for certain purposes otherwise 30.9.2004) by National Health Service Reform (Scotland) Act 2004 (asp 7), ss. 2, 12(1); S.S.I. 2004/361, art. 2(a)(ii)(b)(ii)