Vision

The work of Building Public Health Futures supports the overall objective of the School of Public Health, to make every contact a health improving contact

To support this the overarching vision for Building Public Health Futures is: to build capacity to significantly improve the health of the people of the North East throughdeveloping the skills of individuals and teams and through the development of organisations to address the wider determinants of health

The aims of Building Public Health Futures are:

• To develop a capacity building strategy
• To develop capacity through, education, training and development
• To develop capacity through influencing workforce development

Visit our Priority work areas for details of the work we're doing.

Accountability

Building Public Health Futures is jointly accountable to the Department of Health and the North East Strategic Health Authority via a service level agreement with NHS North East, and reports back on progress in meeting its strategic priorities to the Board of the School of Public Health.

Building Public Health Futures is hosted by the University of Sunderland where a small operational team is led by Professor Ann Crosland. Strategic planning and direction and expert guidance is provided by a steering group, chaired by Professor Sue Milner, which meets quartely. Membership of this group is made up of representatives from the five North East universities, further education institutions, Primary Care Trusts and NHS North.

The objectives of BPHF are

• Develop a business case outlining priority groups and deliverables
• Stakeholder analysis, ensuring the wider determinants of health are considered
• Workforce roles analysis to inform future planning
• Report on public health careers project
• Support the development of standardised and sustainable training, including scoping activity for the development of practitioner accreditation
• Develop support/training package for educators as identified through educator capacity research project
• Promote/develop tools and knowledge prioritising the e-learning induction
• Educator needs assessment to be completed with report. Develop tools to address gaps
• Develop a system with examples for identifying curriculum and capacity building priorities and capture existing good practice
• School of Public Health North East website: Maintenance of BPHF section to include minutes and supporting papers, and editorial updates; the website is frequently updated with on-going developments from BPHF group contributions and outcomes
• Support and further develop the Every Contact a Health Improving Contact tool for use across partner organisations including local government and universities
• Support development work ensuing form University CPD contract commissioning to include Every Contact a health Improving Contact.