Welcome to the School of Public Health | Health Education England East Midlands

Welcome to the East Midlands School of Public Health

We are a friendly, supportive, and innovative specialty school responsible for delivering high-quality training across the region, supporting trainees to develop the knowledge, skills and experience needed to become future public health consultants.

The East Midlands offers a diverse and rewarding training experience across six counties: Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Rutland, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire and Nottinghamshire. Our trainees benefit from placements in a wide range of organisations, including local authorities, NHS England, the UK Health Security Agency, academia and NHS Provider Trusts. We also support our registrars/trainees pursuing national and unique opportunities. East Midlands public health map

Our website provides useful information for anyone interested in or involved in public health training in the East Midlands. Throughout the website, you’ll find more details about the school, recruitment, and training, as well as links to other information sources. If you can’t find what you are looking for, please let us know.

About The School

The purpose of the specialist postgraduate school in public health is to advise the postgraduate dean on behalf of NHS Workforce, Education and Training on specialist postgraduate training in public health and provide educational leadership in the specialty. In addition, the school oversees appropriate structures to deliver public health training as agreed with the dean.

The Gold Guide 10th Edition (2024)

Faculty of Public Health Specialty Training Curriculum

Meet the team

Interim head of school and training programme director

Helene Denness
Email: Helene.Denness@northnorthants.gov.uk

Helene Denness has more than 30 years’ experience in public sector roles. She is currently the training programme director (TPD) and is fulfilling the head of school role, alongside being a deputy director of public health for North Northamptonshire Council and a faculty board member for the East Midlands. Helene has been part of the public health school since 2021 and draws on her experience as a training network coordinator and educational supervisor to take a continuous quality improvement approach to public health training in the East Midlands.

The key to Helene’s work has been forming strong, trusting relationships across systems. Her career has been infused with a commitment to reducing inequity and inequality, encompassing local, regional, and national roles. As a qualified and experienced coach and mentor, Helene often takes a coaching approach in her interactions with registrars/trainees, believing that the pastoral aspects of the TPD role are crucial not only to registrars/trainees' well-being, but to their successful progression through training.

Training programme director (South)

Vacant

Primary and community care coordinator

Nicky Crane
Email: nicky.crane@nhs.net

Primary and community care administrator

Yasmin Hafeez
Email: y.hafeez@nhs.net

School management

The school is led by the head of school (HoS), whose role is to advise and support NHSE WTE in their role as commissioners of the programme. The HoS is supported by training programme directors (TPDs) who are responsible for the operational delivery of the specialty training programme.

Governance is provided by the school board, which brings together representatives from the training programme, including HoS, TPDs, educational supervisors, programme team, and the chair of the registrar committee.