Workforce development issues in the UK

1. Public Health Workforce
Development
Dr Jane Thompson

2. Today….
• Briefly consider public health workforce
development in the UK
• Consider who will be accessing your new
modules?
• What skills will they need to develop public
health locally?
• How can your modules prepare them (as a
workforce) for the challenges?

3. UK Public Health workforce
• Chief Medical Officer • Most senior medic
• Regional Director of • Senior medic
Public Health
• Director of Public • Medic or non-medic
Health

4. UK Public Health Workforce
• Consultants • Medics or non-medics
Specialists • MPH
• Registered with Faculty of
Public Health
• Practitioners • Clinical or non-clinical
• Professional registration?
• Degree or post-graduate
• Wider workforce
• Wide variety of training

5. Public health skills and career
framework

6. Public Health functions
• Health Protection
• Health Improvement
• Healthcare Public Health

7. Consider who will be accessing
your new modules?
• Who are they aimed at?
• What role do these people have in the
workforce?

8. What skills will they need to
develop public health locally?
• Who will they be working with?
• What will they need to achieve?
• What resources will they have – or need?

9. How can your modules prepare
them (as a workforce) for the
challenges?
• Will other professional groups need to use
the modules?