Consultation outcome

Healthy Lives, Healthy People: Towards a Workforce Strategy for the Public Health System

• From: Department of Health and Social Care, Public Health England and Health Education England
• Published: 27 March 2012
• Last updated: 3 May 2013 — See all updates

This was published under the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

Applies to England

This consultation has concluded

Read the full outcome

Healthy Lives, Healthy People: Towards a Workforce Strategy for the Public Health System - Summary of Responses

PDF, 224 KB, 30 pages

Healthy Lives, Healthy People: A Public Health Workforce Strategy

PDF, 1.7 MB, 21 pages

Detail of outcome

This document provides a summary of responses to the consultation, with details on how the consultation was carried out.

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Original consultation

Summary

The government invites your views on ways to develop the public health workforce in the new public health system.

This consultation ran from
27 March 2012 to 11:45pm on 29 June 2012

Consultation description

The Health and Social Care Act 2012 sets out changes to the public health system. Central to this is ensuring that the public health system continues to have a highly skilled and motivated workforce across the 3 domains of public health: health protection, health promotion and healthcare public health – wherever they are in the system.

This consultation asks your views on ways to support and develop the public health workforce including

• ways to enumerate the public heath workforce
• recruitment and retention
• the role of public health practitioners
• the role of local education and training boards
• ways to strengthen academic public health and the public health information and intelligence function

The consultation was signposted in the public health document Healthy Lives, Healthy People: Update and Way Forward

Documents

Healthy Lives, Healthy People: Towards a Workforce Strategy for the Public Health System - Consultation Document

PDF, 471 KB, 51 pages

Impact Assessment: Consultation on a Proposed Public Health Workforce Strategy

PDF, 944 KB, 12 pages

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Published 27 March 2012
Last updated 3 May 2013 + show all updates

1. 3 May 2013

   Summary of responses and consultation strategy added.

2. 27 March 2012

   First published.