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Challenges and Opportunities. East Midlands Public Health Summit 17 th June 2014 Rowena Clayton Deputy Director – Workforce PHE Midlands and East. Midlands and East Region. PHE Midlands & East. One Region & 4 Centres w orking with 4 HEE LETBs, 8 NHSE Area Teams & 35 LAs
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Challenges and Opportunities • East Midlands Public Health Summit • 17th June 2014 • Rowena Clayton • Deputy Director – Workforce • PHE Midlands and East ME EM PHW Summit June
Midlands and East Region PHE Midlands & East • One Region & 4 Centres • working with 4 HEE LETBs, 8 NHSE Area Teams & 35 LAs • PHE Region: Professional leadership and support to PH system incl joint apptof DsPH, revalidation & professional guidance and leadership. • PHE Centres:Development of the specialist and wider PH workforce to support LAs on PH workforce and manage PHE relationship with LETBs. ME EM PHW Summit June
Midlands and East Region PH System – Who is the Workforce • Diverse PH workforce core or with bearing on PH: • Vary but mappable to PH Skills & Knowledge Framework (NB may be very senior in own roles) ME EM PHW Summit June
Midlands and East Region Where are we in PHE Mids & East • Arrangements in PHE for workforce: • ME DepDir & 3 WF DevMgrs (2wte) for 4 Centres • Various PH workforce networks • Workforce – bare bones M&E data: • DsPH: 33 LAs had a DPH with 2 vacancies • Specialist training: WM 8, EM 6, EoE 6 – all filled • Consultants: own count & revalidation data • LA (74 medical, 71 non-medical) • PHE (54 medical, 6 non-medical) • Academics (39) • Practitioners: at least 100 nationally of which 30 WM • Analyst and nurse data – in progress ME EM PHW Summit June
Midlands and East Region Challenges • Long standing issues include: • Agreed PHWF typology and count for planning • Career framework across PH • Consistent standards & regulation across PH professions • Practitioner development - unequal access • Development of specialised staff • And add the challenges of PH re-organisation: • LA different environment, culture, • Maintaining integrated PH (HI/HP/HC) – drift & barriers • Developing capability to meet challenges - leadership & management ME EM PHW Summit June
Midlands and East Region Opportunities • PH access to the corporate LA body – great potential for influence, • System leadership initiatives showing impact of multi-professional teams – new breadth and depth to PH for places and communities, • PH now positioned across key agencies – identity & reach transcends organisational boundaries. Access to each other – we need to use it, • Huge opportunity to sort out the longstanding problems, • Development of the whole workforce in an integrated way, and • Strategic shake-up – LGA, PHE, HEE, FPH etc getting aligned in ways not seen before. ME EM PHW Summit June