Competency frameworks and resources

The Public Health Skills and Knowledge Framework is UK-wide and is regularly updated with a variety of tools to support its use.

Public Health Skills and Knowledge Framework overview (PDF file, 4.4 MB)

The Faculty of Public Health curriculum describes the core competencies in the ten key areas of public health practice:

1. Use of public health intelligence to survey and assess a population’s health and wellbeing.
2. Assessing the evidence of effectiveness of interventions, programmes and services intended to improve health or wellbeing of individuals or populations.
3. Policy and strategy and evidence development, translation and implementation.
4. Strategic leadership and collaborative working for health.
5. Health promotion, determinants of health and health communication.
6. Health protection.
7. Health and care public health.
8. Academic public health.
9. Professional personal and ethical development.
10. Integration and application of competences for consultant practice. 

Main resources for creating a role or job description for a GPwER PH and HI

1. Public Health Skills and Knowledge Framework August 2019 Update (UK Government)
   1. PHSKF Self Assessment Tool - for GPwER to self-assess learning needs
   2. PHSKF Mapping Tool - for employers to map organisational skills gaps and to develop GPwER role descriptions.
2. Curriculum - Faculty of Public Health (FPH)
3. GP curriculum
4. PHSKF – Professional and Ethical Underpinnings
   • Good public health practice framework 2016 (FPH) (PDF file, 185 KB)
   • ¹ The Seven Principles of Public Life (UK Government)
   • ¹ Public health ethics in practice (UK Government) 

Learning resources

Population health

• Centre for Population Health
• Public Health Textbook (FPH)
• NHS Population Health Training Pathways (NHS England)
• Population Wellbeing Portal
• Welcome to Health Knowledge (FPH)
• Developing the public health workforce: training and recognizing specialists in public health from backgrounds other than medicine: experience in the UK | (Public Health Reviews)
• Multi-professional framework for advanced clinical practice in England and specific endorsed ones, including public health Centre-endorsed credential specifications (NHS England)

Health inequalities

• RCGP eLearning course: Health Inequalities Hub
• Fairhealth
• Building Equitable Primary Care - a practical toolkit - Clinical Effectiveness Group
• Health Equity Evidence Centre focuses on addressing inequalities in primary care
• Institute of Health Equity (IHE)