Health Promotion Workforces
The Department of Health commissioned the Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH []) to facilitate a series of workshops relating to the role and positioning of the health promotion workforces.
The RSPH [] has strong networks and links with the current health promotion and behaviour change workforces that the Department of Health (DH) would like to consult with about the standards and competencies of their roles.
Within the frames of this project the RSPH [] organised and held a series of meetings with the health promotion workforce on behalf of the DH which focussed on discussion of five key questions:
1. What are the advantages and disadvantages of having defined specialists in health promotion?
2. What features of the health promotion workforce’s competencies are unique – and where, if at all, is there a need for competency development?
3. In what ways is health promotion practice underpinned by a strong academic / theoretical base. How, and in what ways, this underpinning of health promotion activity be further enhanced.
4. What are the major opportunities and challenges facing the health promotion workforce in terms of retention, capacity and development?
5. What are the core skills of health promotion – for practitioners and for managers?
Workshops were held across 5 regions in England with representatives from the health promotion and behaviour change workforces.
The RSPH [] summarised the findings from these workshops, and provided a summary report and synthesis of main concerns, insights and implications for each of these thematic question areas.
Download the Health Promotion and Behavioural Change Project Report Health Promotion and Behavioural Change Project Report
For more information, please contact Anna Zilnyk at azilnyk@rsph.org.uk or on +44 (0)20 7265 7324
