• Programme
  
• Welcome
  Presented by Dr John Middleton, Chair WM TPHN/ Executive Director of PH for Sandwell
• Building an Effective Public Health Workforce in the West Midlands: Role of the Teaching Public Health Network
  Presentation by Dr Rashmi Shukla, Regional Director of Public Health
• Equipping our workforce to deliver an effective Public Health role
  Presentation by Sally James, Public Health Workforce Specialist, NHS West Midlands Workforce Deanery
• Sharing the learning across the West Midlands: The Communities for Health Network
  Presentation by Su Turner, Principal Consultant, I&DEA
• Local Authority Regulatory Services and Public Health – Learning & Working Together
  Presentation by Michael Parkes, Chartered Environmental Health Practitioner, West Midlands Teaching Public Health Network
• A reporter’s view of your Stakeholder Event
  By Graham Hill, Journalist & sub-editor & Carol Hassall, Owner, Red Cat Communications
• What happened when ‘journalists’ attended a public health event: an evaluation and learning points
  By Carol Hassall, Red Cat Communications

Plenary Presentations

• Welcome and Introduction by Olwen Dutton, Chief Executive, West Midlands Regional Assembly and West Midlands Leaders Board
• Regional Health and Wellbeing Strategy: Tackling the Wider Determinants of Health by Karen Saunders, Senior Public Health Manager, Department of Health West Midlands & Sue Holmyard, Assistant Director Planning & Environmental Health, Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council
• Planning for a Healthier Region: Experience from HUDU by Neil Blackshaw, Consultant to HUDU
• Planning Systems and Planners by Paul Tomlinson, Associate, Scott Wilson, Birmingham
• Strategic Review of Health Inequalities in England post-2010 by Dr Tammy Boyce, Ilaria Geddes, University College London

Resource Sheets

• Greenspace further information
• Mental Well being and Planning resource sheet
• NHS Performance
• Play Shaper flyer
• Resource sheet general
• Resource sheet RHWBS

Workshops

• Designing with children & young people in mind by Laky Sahota, Regional Manager, Play England & Jane Puzey, Head of Cultural Programmes, MADE
• Greenspace workshop Active Woods
• Green Space and Health Workshop
• Planning for a Healthier Region: Housing workshop
• Obesogenic environments by Karen Saunders, Department of Health West Midlands, Suzanne Gardner, Physical Activity Network, West Midlands & Michael Parkes, Independent Consultant, Environmental Health
• Spatial Planning & Heath: The View from the East End by Tim Madelin, Senior Public Health Strategist, NHS Tower Hamlets
• Transport Workshop by Paul Tomlinson, Scott Wilson & Peter Matthews, GOWM

• Event report
  

The launch of a public health training needs assessment tool and an interactive session on the ambitious project behind its development – including the six pilot sites, each with a focus on its own public health priority.

• Event Programme
  

Over sixty delegates from Local authorities, Primary Care Trusts, Higher and Further Education Institutions and Regional Bodies such as the Government Office West Midlands, Learning and Skills Council and NHS West Midlands took part in a days in an interactive session Delegates were asked to comment on what they felt they had gained from the Network, what they thought they could contribute to the Network, what more the Network could be doing and how the Department of Health can help. At the end of the session there was an update on progress with the Public Health induction Project.

Presentations are summary report from the event:

• Meeting the needs of teaching providers, service providers, students, commissioners to develop the future public health workforce
  Presented by Jenny Wright & Dr Marilena Korkodilos
• Public Health Priorities in the West Midlands
  Presented by Karen Saunders
• Gaining a wider public health workforce perspective
  Presented by Patricia Bond
• West Midlands TPHN Public Health Skills and Career Framework (PHSCF) Pilots
  
• Higher Education position and strategy within Skills for Health
  Presented by Chris Lamb
• A skills escalator for the future public health workforce
  Presented by Isabel Perez
• Skills Escalator Tool
  Presented by Cathleen Manancourt
• Mapping the public health content of the MPharm at Keele University
  Presented by Nicola Leighton
• Summary report
  

Forty delegates from Local authorities, Primary Care Trusts, Higher Education Institutions and Regional Bodies such as the Government Office West Midlands, Learning and Skills Council and NHS West Midlands took part in an interactive session with Bryony Lamb, Centre for the advancement of Inter-professional Education (CAIPE). Stakeholders agreed there is a need to systematise the use inter-professional learning as a teaching delivery mode. After lunch there was an opportunity to select a workshop from a range of public health themes and input to developing public health teaching projects. The final session described how the Public Health Career Framework has been applied in two regional pilots

1. identify competency gaps in the current wider public health workforce*
2. map the public health content of university courses delivered to the future wider public health workforce*

(* defined as those staff where public health is not the main focus of their role but where there is a significant opportunity to bring about health improvement and reduce health inequalities through their work in the community)

• Wider Stakeholder Group Event Summary