Deaneries
- Local specialty training
- Interdeanery Transfer
- Maximum Training Capacity (MTC)
- Training Programme Directors
Deaneries are in charge of all medical training in a demarcated geographical area. Training placements will usually be within one deanery, but may be across deaneries in special circumstances. The delivery of training is overseen by a training programme director.
In each region in England there are one or more postgraduate deans who, with their regional postgraduate medical education committees, oversee training in all medical specialties in their locality. Similar arrangements apply in Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales.
Local specialty training committees for public health
The local specialty training committees for public health, like those for other specialties, are sub-committees of the local postgraduate medical education committee
Membership includes:
- the TPD/Head of School;
- the postgraduate dean;
- the local Faculty Adviser;
- a representative of local university departments of public health;
- trainers from NHS departments of public health;
- trainees.
The committees are the responsibility of the postgraduate medical dean, are independent of employing authorities and are usually chaired by the local Faculty Adviser.
They co-ordinate training and continuing education in public health at all levels within their locality as well as monitoring standards of training programmes and the progress of individual trainees.
Training Programme Directors are appointed in open competition by the deans and represent the deans.
Faculty Advisers are appointed by FPH through an election process, work closely with Training Programme Directors and have a complimentary role in the implementation of the training programme.
Interdeanery transfers
Such transfers are not automatic, but at the discretion of the deans involved. Something in the personal circumstances of the applicant must have changed substantially since employment was first taken up. Please refer to the Lead Dean for Public Health for more information.
Upon transfer trainees are asked to complete the Training Programme Feedback Form and return the completed form as directed by their Training Programme Director. This information will be used to improve the standards of training via Deanery quality management and quality control processes. Further information about the purpose and use of the forms can be found in the Guidance on Use.
Maximum Training Capacity (MTC)
Further information can be found on the Training Policies page.
Trainee Programme Directors
The Training Programme Director (TPD) has a key role in managing the specialty training programme. The fundamental role is that of co-ordinator and communicator between trainees, the Postgraduate Deans, the local Specialist Training Committee and the Faculty of Public Health (FPH).
The key roles and responsibilities of a TPD include:
- Administration and management of the training programme(s).
- Participation in the appointment process.
- Overseeing the delivery of the training.
- Monitoring and inspection of posts.
Northern Ireland
- Dr John W G Yarnell MD FFPH
- Reader in Cardiovascular Epidemiology
- Epidemiology & Public Health
- Queen's University Belfast
- Mulhouse Building
- Royal Victoria Hospital Site
- Grosvenor Road
- Belfast
- BT12 6BJ
- Tel: +44 28 9063 2609
- Fax: +44 28 9023 1907
- Email:
Scotland
- Dr Jim Chalmers MBChB MSc MRCGP FFPH
- Information Services
- NHS National Services
- Gyle Square
- 1 South Gyle Crescent
- Edinburgh
- EH12 9EB
- Tel: 0131 275 6136
- Fax: 0131 551 1392
- Email:
Wales
- Dr Brendan Mason FFPH
- Consultant Epidemiologist
- NPHS CDSC Wales
- (Velindre NHS Trust)
- The Temple of Peace and Health
- Cathays Park
- Cardiff
- CF10 3NW
- Tel: 029 2040 2471
- Email:
East of England
- Dr Celia Duff FFPH
- Programme Director for Public Health
- East of England Multi-Professional Deanery
- Block 3, Ida Darwin Site
- Fulbourn, Cambridge
- CB21 5EE
- Tel: 01223 884881
- Email:
London/Kent, Surrey and Sussex
- Dr Jean Chapple FFPH
- CPHM
- Westminster PCT
- 15 Marylebone Road
- London
- NW1 5JD
- Tel: 020 7150 8108
- Fax: 020 7150 8105
- Email:
- Dr Jane Scarlett MRCGP FFPH
- NHS Kingston
- 22 Hollyfield Road
- Surbiton
- Surrey
- KT5 9AL
- Tel: 020 8339 8135
- Fax: 020 8339 8100
- Email:
- Dr Zach de Beer FFPH
- Trainee Programme Director
- London Deanery
- Stewart House
- Russell Square
- WC1B 5DU
- Email:
- Dr YM Young FFPH
- CCDC, South West London Health Protection Unit
- & Health Protection Training Programme Director, London and KSS
- South West London Health Protection Unit
- Ground Floor, Teak Tower
- Springfield University Hospital
- Glenburnie Road, Tooting
- London SW17 7DJ
- Tel: 020 8812 7850
- Email:
North West
- Dr Daniel Seddon FFPH
- Head of the North West School of Public Health
- Mersey Deanery
- Regatta Place
- Liverpool
- L3 4BL
- Tel: 0151 285 4716
- Email:
North East
- Dr David Chappel FFPH
- Assistant Director- programmes
- North East Public Health Observatory
- Wolfson Institute
- University of Durham Queen's Campus
- University of Boulevard
- Stockton on Tees
- TS17 6BH
- Tel: 0191 334 0402
- Email:
Yorkshire and the Humber
- Ms Val Barker MSc
- Room G33
- The Charles Thackrah Building
- 101 Clarendon Road
- Leeds
- LS2 9JL
- Tel: 0113 3433185
- Email:
Oxford
- Dr Premila Webster MFPH
- Consultant in Public Health
- Department of Public Health
- University of Oxford
- Old Road Campus
- Headington
- Oxford
- OX3 7LF
- Tel: 01865 289249
- Fax: 01865 226720
- Email:
Hampshire & Isle of Wight
- Dr John Acres FFPH
- Public Health Development
- NHS Education South Central
- Southern House
- Sparrowgrove
- Otterbourne
- Hampshire
- SO21 2RU
- Tel: 01962 718 443
- Email:
South West
- Dr Christine Hine MRCP FFPH
- South Gloucestershire PCT
- Monarch Court
- Emerald Business Park Emersons Green
- South Gloucestershire
- BS16 7FH
- Tel: 0117 924 0582
- Email:
East Midlands
- Dr Corinne Camilleri-Ferrante FFPH
- Tollbar House
- Derby Road
- Ilkeston
- Derbyshire
- DE7 5FE
- Tel: 0115 931 6100
- Email:
West Midlands
- Dr Rob Cooper FFPH
- Associate Postgraduate Dean
- Public Health Training Scheme
- West Midlands Deanery
- St Chads court
- Hayley Road
- Edgbaston
- Birmingham
- B16 9RG
- Tel: 0121 6952534
- Email:
Defence Medical Services
- Dr D A Ross MSc MBBS MFTM RCPS(G) MRCGP FFPHM FRCPCH
- Army Medical Directorate
- Slim Road
- Camberley
- Surrey
- GU15 4NP
- Tel: 01276 412938
- Email:
Department of Health
- Dr Anne McConville MRCGP FFPH
- East of England Public Health Group
- Government Office for East of England
- Eastbrook Shaftesbury Road
- Cambridge
- CB2 8DF
- Tel: 01223 372 813
- Email:
