Background
CVS Fife - 23-27 Randolph Street, Buckhaven KY8 1AT (Map)
T: 01592 567001 - F: 01592 567009 - E: cvsfife@cvsfife.org
Community Health Partnerships are the evolution of the Local Health Care Co-Operatives (LHCCs) from bodies responsible for primary care services into bodies at the centre of health care planning and delivery. The CHPs will also be part of the Community Planning process.
CVS Fife is a member of Fife Community Planning Partnership and had responsibility for writing the section on voluntary sector involvement for the Fife CHP Scheme of Establishment. It is CVS Fife's role to help the voluntary sector represent itself by assisting the sector to choose and support representatives. Lyndsay Macadam, CVS Fife's Development / Capacity Building Officer, is the main staff member responsible for making sure representational structures are in place and working efficiently.
After the Scheme of Establishment for Fife (354KB PDF) was submitted to the Scottish Executive Professor McGoldrick, Chair of NHS Fife, was invited to an event held in Kirkcaldy where he addressed over 100 representatives from the health & well-being voluntary sector. After his speech the attendees met in smaller groups to discuss how the voluntary sector in Fife could best respond to the opportunity of having a place for a representative on each of the 3 CHPs in Fife. The idea of three Voluntary Sector Health & Wellbeing Forums arose through these group discussions.
Candidates were sought from the sector to take on the representational roles and two people from each area were nominated. As a result, three sets of Fife wide elections were held. These first elections had a high turnout and resulted in Stuart Pryde (Kirkcaldy & Levenmouth CHP), Isabel Wilson (Glenrothes & NE Fife) and Jessie Roberts (Dunfermline & West CHP) being elected as the sectors first democratically elected representatives engaging with NHS Fife. Stuart Pryde stood down early from his term of office and was replaced by Jim Bett. Isobel Wilson was re-elected unopposed in May 2007 and Jessie Roberts won her re-election in June 2007.
The forums have met regularly since their first meetings in the summer of 2005 and have covered topics such as the development of the new Joint Health Improvement Plan and had guest speakers from organisations like the Scottish Health Council and the Director of Public Health, Dr Margaret Hannah.
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