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About the Community Hospitals Association
The Community Hospitals Association (CHA) is an independent voluntary organisation. The CHA was established over 50 years ago and is a unique voice for community hospitals - their services, staff, patients and communities. The CHA is a membership organisation which supports community hospitals in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. We are dedicated to sharing knowledge and experience on the role, function and potential of community hospitals. We also share information throughout our networks on the contribution that community hospital services make to the health and wellbeing of patients and communities. We have a growing membership, and we are committed to supporting all those concerned with their community hospitals.
Our role
The CHA works to support and strengthen community hospitals by:
- connecting people and organisations through national networks
- sharing knowledge, experience and good practice
- highlighting innovation and improvement in community hospital care
- championing the value of community hospitals within wider health and care systems
We provide a trusted space where learning can be shared, challenges explored and the voice of community hospitals heard.
How the CHA is sustained
The Community Hospitals Association is an independent, membership-led organisation and does not receive central funding.Our work is sustained through membership, sponsorship and donations. This support enables us to convene networks, share learning, host national events and contribute to policy and system discussions that affect community hospitals.If you would like to support the CHA and help strengthen the national voice for community hospitals, you can find out more on our Support the CHA page.
Governance and accountability
The CHA is governed by a Board of Directors and supported by a committee and a wider network of associate committee members and advisors all of whom are volunteers
CHA Annual General Meeting
2025 Annual General Meeting
The CHA Annual General Meeting for 2024/2025 took place on Wednesday 14th January 2026 at 7.00PM. The meeting papers are available below. The CHA AGMs are open to all CHA members. Please contact Eleanor at eleanor@communityhospitals.net if you would like to attend future AGMs.
CHA AGM Notes 2024 2025 - 14th January 2026 fv
Agenda for AGM 14th January 2026
CHA Chair's Report for AGM 14th January 2026
CHA Treasurer's Report for AGM 14th January 2026
2024 AGM
AGM Agenda 11th September 2024
AGM Incoming President Dr David Seamark 20082024
AGM Outgoing President Dr Helen Tucker 20082024
CHA Treasurers Report for AGM on 11 September 2024
2023 AGM
Partner with the CHA
The Community Hospitals Association is the only national body representing community hospitals across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Through our network of 483 community hospitals, we connect companies directly with the senior clinical and operational staff who make real decisions about products, services and clinical pathways every day. This is an audience that conventional marketing rarely reaches well, and one that trusts the CHA as its national voice.
We offer several ways for companies to build a genuine, credible presence with this audience, from a single focused session to an ongoing relationship across the year.
Networking & Leadership Webinars
Community hospitals make decisions that shape care for millions of patients. Reaching the people who make those decisions is hard through conventional marketing. Our Networking and Leadership Webinar Series puts your company directly in front of them.
Delegates choose to attend because the topic matters to their work. You are speaking to a room that wants to be there, not one that has been sent along. Each session is a free, one-hour lunchtime webinar, chaired by the CHA. Your expert speaker presents briefly, then the floor opens to questions. That Q&A is where the real value sits: direct contact with the people who know, day to day, what is and is not working in community hospitals, and whether your product or service meets a genuine need.
For companies developing new products or services, this is a rare chance to test ideas with the staff who would actually use them, before you take those ideas further.
The CHA manages promotion across its network, event delivery, post-event summaries and CPD certification for delegates. Delegates opt in to share their contact details when they register, so you leave with a list of warm, engaged contacts, not one bought in from elsewhere. Every session to date has been rated Good or Excellent by delegates.
Find out more about the webinar series here.
CHA National Conference
Our National Conference is the biggest gathering of community hospital staff in the calendar, bringing together senior leaders from across the sector for a full programme of speakers, workshops and networking. Sponsoring or exhibiting here puts your company in front of this audience in person and at scale, with the kind of sustained visibility a single session cannot offer. Read about our conference sponsorship here.
CHA Newsletter
Our newsletter reaches over 9000 staff working in community hospitals nationally and contacts across the sector on a regular basis, keeping your company visible between events and in front of decision-makers throughout the year. View our past newsletters here.
Why partner with the CHA
As the only national organisation representing community hospitals, the CHA gives companies something no other channel can: direct, trusted access to a specialist audience that is otherwise hard to reach, combined with the credibility of an established, respected sector voice.
Get in touch
To discuss sponsorship or partnership opportunities, contact the CHA at info@communityhospitals.net