Public Health Training Scheme Placements within and outside the SW Region (as at 11 May 2009)
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Type of Placement Locations Available (Number of Places) Special Interest

PCT

Cornwall and Isles of Scilly PCT  (3)
Plymouth Teaching PCT  (4)      
Devon PCT  (6)
Torbay Care Trust  (2)
Somerset PCT  (3)
North Somerset PCT  (2)
Dorset PCT  (3)
Bournemouth & Poole Teaching PCT  (2)
Wiltshire PCT  (2)
Swindon PCT  (2)
Bristol Teaching PCT  (6)
Bath and North East Somerset PCT  (2)
South Gloucestershire PCT  (4)
Gloucestershire PCT  (3)
 
Academic
University of Bristol Dept Social Medicine (4)
University of West of England  (2)
Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry (4)
PenCLAHRC (Peninsula Collaboration for     Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care)
PenTAG (Peninsula Technology Assessment Group)
Built environment


Research into practice

Technological Assessment

Health Protection
Avon, Glos & Wilts HPU – Stroud, Bristol and West Lavington
Dorset & Somerset HPU – Ferndown and Taunton
SW Peninsula HPU – St Austell and Dartington
Regional Epidemiology Unit – Stonehouse
Centre for Emergency Preparedness and Response – Porton Down, Wiltshire
Health Protection
 
 
Epidemiology
National emergency preparedness
Acute Trust
Gloucestershire Hospitals Foundation Trust
Public health in an acute trust
Regional
Strategic Health Authority (NHS South West) – Taunton   (3)
SW Public Health Observatory – Bristol  (2)
Regional Public Health Group (GOSW) – Bristol and Plymouth   (4)
Specialist commissioning and audit
PH Information & Analysis
Regional overview and LAA negotiation
Other
The Met Office – Exeter
Jersey Health Service - Jersey
CDC Atlanta                                                                                 )
CDC Australia                                                                               ) WHO – Geneva, Copenhagen                                                        )
 
Weather, climate & health forecasting & research
Non NHS service experience
 
Global Health
 
National Treasures 'National Treasures' are organisations that offer specialist training opportunities for trainees. These are known as 'national treasures' because the posts are open to trainees from outside the deanery.
  •  Centre for Health Services Sciences

  •  Department for International Development (DFID) , London

  •  Guy's, King's & St Thomas 's Medical School, London

  •  HM Inspectorate of Prisons, London

  •  HPA Centre for Infections, London

  •  HPA Centre for Emergency Planning and Response, Porton Down, Wiltshire

  •  HPA Centre for Radiation, Chemical and Environmental Hazards, Chilton, Oxfordshire

  •  Imperial College School of Medicine, London

  •  Imperial College, Small Area Health Statistics, London

  •  Institute of Child Health & Great Ormond Street Hospital, London

  •  King's Fund, London

  •  London Health Observatory

  •  London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM)

  •  Medical Research Council - Clinical Trials Unit, London

  •  National Clinical Assessment Authority (NCAA) , London

  •  National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) , London

  •  Nuffield Trust for Research and Policy Studies in Health Services, London

  •  Office for National Statistics (ONS), Newport, South Wales

  •  Public Health Genetics Unit, Addenbrooke's Hospital

  •  St George's Hospital Medical School, London

  •  UCL - Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology

For an up-to-date list of national treasures: http://www.fphm.org.uk/training/curriculum/How_you_learn/nat_treasures.asp


For up to date details of supervisors in each South West training location, please contact the Training Programme Co-ordinator.