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PHAST Education, Training & Development Programme

Autumn 2011 Prospectus

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PHAST is pleased to announce a series of newly commissioned workshops, taking place this autumn and concluding another year’s successful ETD programme.

The aim of the PHAST Education, Training & Development Strategy is to build public health capacity and capability within the public, private and voluntary sectors so that a greater number of people have the knowledge and skills to improve the health of the population, promote public health and reduce health inequalities in the UK and internationally.

In light of the newly identified government agenda, moving away from target driven care into a focused approach to outcomes, we offer you a wide range of training to suit many different audiences. Concepts will be explained and a set of tools provided to support the delivery of a ‘world class service’.

Whilst each training programme identifies their target audience, this is purely a guideline and discussion with PHAST’s Education, Training & Development Director can help you to decide if a course is suitable for your needs. All PHAST training programmes are responsive to the Chief Medical Officer’s tiered approach to public health and are continually developed to ensure they are up to date with sector developments.

The courses mentioned in this booklet are available for general access and places can be booked online by visiting the PHAST website, www.phast.org.uk. Additional information, updates to all courses and new additions can also be found of the website. Please note that these courses are also available to individual organisations, to be commissioned on a bespoke basis - for further information or to book an event, please call 020 3479 5250.

Each full-day workshop provides the participant with 5 Continuing Professional Development (CPD) points, with each half-day workshop worth 3 points. A certificate will be provided to each participant upon completion of the training course.

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Autumn Education, Training & Development Programme



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Contents

Mental Well-being Impact Assessment 4 - 5

Influencing Without Authority 5

FPH Part A Revision Programme January 2012 Exam 6

Introduction to Tendering for Health and Social Care Contracts 7

Preparing Effective Tenders 8

Winning Tenders 9

Nudging People Towards Better Health 10

Scanning and Scenario Planning for Health 11

Influencing Without Authority 12

Systems Thinking for Health 12 - 13

Assessing and Communicating Health Risks 14

PHAST CPD - Webinars 15

Further available courses 15



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PHAST are pleased to offer a one day introduction to Mental Well-being Impact Assessment

This session is based on a successful model developed and promoted by ISP (Inukshuk and SLaM Partnership) as part of their delivery of a national MWIA promotion programme.The workshop will introduce participants to MWIA and to enable them to undertake some of the processes.

By the end of the day participants will have:• A basic understanding of the MWIA policy and evidence base

for the MWIA framework• Considered what we understand by mental well-being• A basic understanding of the MWIA process• Have undertaken an MWIA screening• Considered how they might take MWIA forward in their

organisations and next steps for their own support or training needs.

Mental Well-being Impact Assessment (MWIA) is a methodology developed and tested on over 550 programmes in England. It combines robust Health Impact Assessment methodology with up to date evidence on the determinants and protective factors for mental well-being. It engages a wide range of partners in systematically assessing a policy, programme, service or project and making recommendations for improvement and monitoring. The process enables a shift in thinking and resources to improving well-being. This enables partners and sectors to transform systems from those that concentrate on managing the consequences of poor well-being (high crime, unemployment, illness, intolerance and underachievement) to ones that tackle its determinants: control, resilience, participation & inclusion.

An MWIA toolkit has been updated in order to reflect new government policy, international evidence and the successful National MWIA capacity building programme. The toolkit is now published by the National MWIA Collaborative (England).

MWIA has been highlighted in recent policy and guidance as a useful tool for working towards the public health outcome that “more people will have good mental health”; (HMG 2011, No health without mental health - delivering better mental health outcomes, NMHDU/ UCLAN,


Mental Well-being Impact AssessmentFull day workshop - 21st September 2011

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2010, Commissioning Mental Wellbeing for All - A Toolkit for Commissioners and NMHDU/ LGID, 2010, The Role of Local Authorities in Promoting Population Wellbeing).

Benefits from undertaking MWIAThe outcomes from undertaking MWIA have been positive and suggest that MWIA has a central role to play in:

• Improving focus to create better responses to improve well-being;

• Developing shared understandings and coherence of mental well-being with a range of partners;

• Evaluation: Ensuring policies, programmes, services and projects have a positive impact on mental well-being, with meaningful indicators of success;

• Actively engaging all partners in service development and fostering co-production of mental well-being; and

• Supporting community needs assessment and the development of relevant and meaningful local indicators.

PHAST in conjunction with Rhema Group are pleased to announce the launch of a new course on

"Influencing Without Authority."The overall objective is to equip Health Professionals to find their leadership space in the public health sector and step into it so that they can actively influence decisions which impact them.

Public Health Professionals today work with people in complex structures, full of interdependent relationships, and very often difficult to influence in a conventional way.

This course enables people to:• Identify influencing opportunities• Build their personal credibility• Influence people from different cultures and backgrounds• Build effective relationships• Work with a collaborative approach• Improve their communication Skills

Another session of this workshop will take place on the 22nd November 2011.


Influencing Without AuthorityFull day workshop - 4th October 2011




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A series of weekly public health seminars for those wishing to sit the FPH Part A exam. Over the past 10 years the programme has been tailored to meet the needs of participants, providing expert tuition and practical exercises and has frequently achieved higher pass rates than the national average for participants. During this time, we have compiled an extensive set of notes which can be used as a study aid, these can be found on the HealthKnowledge website: www.healthknowledge.org.uk.

Style: The sessions are interactive and practical and include critical appraisal, data manipulation, understanding epidemiological principles and techniques and their application. There will be sessions on various syllabus topics, depending on participant needs.

This course is aimed at: Public health practitioners and trainees wishing to take their Part A exam. This can be for those on the FPH training programme or those who wish to take the examination for a professional qualification.For further information on the next course please visit the PHAST website.


FPH Part A Revision ProgrammeJanuary 2012 Exam

10 half day workshops, weekly from 6th October 2011£700 +vat - Central London

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The course has been refined over many years to increase the likelihood that you will pass the Part A exam. Seminars with experienced experts in public health practice and training with special knowledge of the exam enable you to:• Plan and carry out your revision in an effective and efficient

way.• Provide essential teaching notes, reference resources and

conceptual models.• Refresh your knowledge of the main areas of the syllabus.

Practice key skills such as critical appraisal, data manipulation and writing styles.

• Improve your exam technique so as to optimise your performance on the day.

• Get individual feedback and 1 to 1s where necessary.

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This workshop is the first in a series of three sessions, exploring the tendering process for health and social care

contracts.This full day workshop is structured in three parts which cover the Legal and Regulatory background to public procurement; The selection phase and the PQQ; The Award phase and the Method Statement and how this is scored.

Learning Objectives:

Understanding the legislative background to tendering – the rules with which the purchaser must comply and how these are addressed in the PQQ:

• the legal and regulatory framework within which tendering operates;

• the processes which are used for each type of tender;• what is required to produce a successful PQQ;• what companies and organisations can do to increase their

chances of success at the selection (PQQ) stage;• what are the common pitfalls.

The second, or award, stage of tendering involves responding to the Invitation to Tender (ITT) and completing a Method Statement:

• developing an understanding of commonly used scoring systems;

• explain exactly what appraisal officers are looking for during tender appraisal;

• identify how method statements and tenders generally can score well and be competitive;

• use actual tenders to see how the processes work in practice;

• consider model appraisal schemes and see how these are used to score tenders;

• look at the importance of policies and how they are scored.

This workshop is a part of a series of three sessions exploring the tendering process for Health and Social Care contracts, while each workshop can be taken on its own, it is recommended that all three are undertaken. See page 8/9 for other workshops in this series.


Introduction to Tendering for Health and Social Care Contracts

Full day workshop - 11th October 2011£195 +vat - Central London



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This workshop is the second in a series of three sessions, exploring the tendering process for health and social care

contracts.The full day workshop is structured around a group task and an individual task ending with a plenary session. The two tasks give participants the opportunity to practice the real tasks involved in the tendering process within the safe environment of the workshop. There is detailed report back and debrief after each task so that participants have ample opportunity to reflect on the experience of the tasks and consider how they can be translated back into the workplace.


Participants will follow the processes used in the production of a winning tender including:

• Assembling the tender team• The key stages in preparing the tender• Key skills in writing and presenting the tender• Quality assuring the tender• Developing a systematic objective approach to tendering• Understanding how the organisation needs to adapt to

enable the tendering process to be more efficient and effective

• Developing practical tools and techniques for improving how the organisation tackles the tender process

• Understanding the benefits of adopting a project management approach to tendering

The second, or award, stage of tendering involves responding to the Invitation to Tender (ITT) and completing a Method Statement.

• Developing an understanding of writing styles appropriate for method statements

• Understanding how appraisal officers approach the task of appraising method statements and using this understanding to improve writing style

• Understand how supporting evidence strengthens the method statement

• Develop appraisal as a tool for improving method statements


Preparing Effective TendersFull day workshop - 12th October 2011




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This workshop is the last in a series of three sessions, exploring the tendering process for health and social care

contracts.The course is structured around one extract from a poorly written method statement and three extracts from well written method statements as examples of good practice. Participants undertake a series of group tasks and open discussions to analyse the common features of well written method statements and how to identify the key components of good answers.


During the first part of the workshop participants will work in groups to:

• Consider some answers to questions from actual tenders;• Learn to look at the answers through the eyes of an

appraisal officer;• Identify where improvements could be made;• Find out how to decipher questions and work out how to

prepare high scoring answers;• Discover the latest trends in requirements for successful

health and social care tenders.

In the second part of the workshop you will look at three different models of winning tenders to:

• Identify the key elements of a very good/excellent answer;• See how to organise your answer, especially in a word or

space limited situation;• Review examples of answers from high scoring, successful

tenders;• Compile a list of the current features of a winning tender.

Both the workshops featured on this page are part of a series of three sessions exploring the tendering process for Health and Social Care contracts, while each workshop can be taken on its own, it is recommended that all three are undertaken.


Winning TendersHalf day workshop (am) - 13th October 2011




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This innovative two day workshop* will provide participants with the theory and skills to support behaviour change both at the individual and population level. In the first part of the course, participants learn and practice basic communication skills to allow them to have purposeful conversations with clients/patients to help them assess readiness, consider change and move them in the direction of positive health. The second part of the course explores the concept of population nudges and participants consider their role in changing behaviour at the group or population level.

This course is aimed at: Anyone who interacts with patients, clients or customers and could use those interactions as opportunities to promote and support healthy behaviour change.

Style: A range of interactive exercises, theory and skills practice.

Learning Objectives:• Understanding "Nudging" within the context of providing

brief advice and promoting health at the individual level• Understanding the different stages of change within the

Transtheoretical Model of Behaviour Change• Understand and apply good communication skills when

talking to people about behaviour change• Understand the different factors that can influence people's

health• Understand nudging within the context of improving health

at the population level

*A one day workshop which focuses on the first part of the course is also available. The trainers will work with your organisation to tailor the course to meet your training requirements or interests.


Nudging People Towards Better HealthTwo day course*

Day 1 - 20th October 2011Day 2 - 4th November 2011£365 +vat - Central London

“ ”I really enjoyed the training. I think it should be made mandatory training for all staff.

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A workshop to develop strategic skills for coping with an uncertain future.

Health futures are uncertain, and some things are more predictable than others. Looking ahead to assess future health needs and scanning the horizon for likely threats and opportunities that could affect health or care can help us get to grips with these challenges. Scenario planning takes us a stage further by weaving the separate elements of change into coherent possible futures and then considering effective responses to these. We can use horizon scans to develop scenarios for plausible futures and use these to explore opportunities and test strategies and programmes.

This course is aimed at: a wide range of NHS and Local Authority staff including medical and non medical directors, commissioning managers and community and public health specialists.

Style: This one-day workshop will develop participants practical skills in scanning and scenario planning. The workshop will comprise a mix of short presentations and group exercises for a practical “learning by doing” approach. It will be led by an accomplished presenter and facilitator with particular experience in futures thinking (both in shaping innovative policies and programmes and in developing such skills amongst staff including at main Board level).

By the end of the workshop participants should be better able to:

• scan the horizon for important developments affecting health and care

• think systematically about where such developments could lead

• identify the threats and opportunities that these developments present for health strategies and programmes

• generate strategic responses that are robust to change and uncertainty


Scanning and Scenario Planning for HealthFull day workshop - 18th November 2011




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This is the second of two workshops, in conjunction with Rhema Group on "Influencing Without Authority."

The overall objective is to equip Health Professionals to find their leadership space in the public health sector and step into it so that they can actively influence decisions which impact them.

Public Health Professionals today work with people in complex structures, full of interdependent relationships, and very often difficult to influence in a conventional way.

This course enables people to:• Identify influencing opportunities• Build their personal credibility• Influence people from different cultures and backgrounds• Build effective relationships• Work with a collaborative approach• Improve their communication Skills

(This workshop is a repeat of the workshop held on the 4th October, Delegates are NOT expected to attend both days training.)

A workshop to develop practical skills for shaping a complex, connected and ever-changing health system.

Health systems are amongst the most complex that people have to deal with. Not only are health and health care complex and dynamic areas in its own right, with multiple stakeholders including individuals, families, communities, businesses, voluntary organisations and government, but also they are embedded in a network of wider systems such as social care, education, employment, justice and the physical environment. It is being increasingly recognised (including by the WHO in a recent report which states “ systems thinking has a huge and untapped potential, first in deciphering the complexity of an entire health system, and then in applying this understanding to design and evaluate interventions” ) that systems thinking provides an accessible yet powerful way to navigate this maze.


Influencing Without AuthorityFull day workshop - 22nd November 2011


Systems Thinking for HealthFull day workshop - 25th November 2011




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This course is aimed at: introducing systems thinking approaches to health and other professionals (i.e. it is not a technical course for analysts and modellers) and is relevant to all those dealing with complex and inter-connected issues in health care i.e. a wide range of NHS, Local Authority, private and voluntary sector staff including doctors, nurses, managers and community and public health specialists.

Style: This one-day workshop will develop participants’ practical skills for systems thinking in health and care. The workshop will comprise a mix of short presentations and group exercises for a practical “learning by doing” approach. It will be led by an accomplished presenter and facilitator with extensive experience in health systems thinking and modelling.


• Understand key systems concepts such as the difference between static and dynamic thinking, tree-by-tree and forest thinking, and straight-line and closed-loop thinking

• Map the components and interconnections of a health system

• Appreciate the value of systems thinking approaches when time and data are in short supply or problems are ill-defined

• Know when (and when not) to use systems modelling and behavioural simulation approaches

• Understand the role of social and other networks in health• Understand how to achieve large impacts with small inputs

and to make effective interventions in complex dynamic situations.




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A workshop to develop practical skills in creating a shared appreciation of hazards to health.

Health risks are often little understood and poorly communicated, typically getting high profile - often sensationalistic - coverage in the media, sometimes with seriously adverse effects for people and programmes. Health professionals and all those responsible for programmes which are affected by people’s attitudes and reactions to health risks need to be able to identify, assess and communicate health risks, and to understand that to be effective this process needs to be a dialogue that takes account of stakeholders concerns and likely reactions. This one-day workshop will develop participants’ practical skills for identifying, assessing and communicating health risks.

This course is aimed at: all those dealing with actual or potential health risks i.e. a wide range of NHS, Local Authority, private and voluntary sector staff including doctors, nurses, managers and community and public health specialists.

Style: The workshop will comprise a mix of short presentations and group exercises for a practical “learning by doing” approach. It will be led by an accomplished presenter and facilitator with particular experience in health risk assessment and communication (including the co-authorship with a former Chief Medical Officer of a landmark paper on risk communication).


• identify and assess health risks• present key information about health risks in a simple and

accessible manner• understand how risks are perceived differently by different

people• craft key messages about health risks to a variety of

stakeholders• develop strategies for communicating about risk in ways that

will lead to support for informed action


Accessing and Communicating Health RisksFull day workshop - 7th December 2011




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PHAST CPD Webinars allow you to gain CPD credits at the comfort of your own desk listening to and watching top speakers from the UK health industry. There are numerous advantages to webinars: you can train where and when you want, there’s no travel time involved, and the cost is a fraction of attending a face to face training seminar.

All our webinars come with full access to a video webinar which you can watch online at any time, downloadable supporting literature & web links for further reading, and a short online multiple choice test which when successfully answered correctly will generate a digital CPD certificate.

PHAST CPD Webinars are a stimulating, enjoyable, cost effective and an easy way to obtain CPD credits for all health professionals. for more information please visit www.phastcpdwebinars.com.

As well of the courses listed in this prospectus, PHAST also offers a variety of courses that organisations have identified as useful for their staff, including:

• Appraisal and Revalidation for GPʼs and Consultants

• Critical Appraisal• Defined Specialist• Engaging Local Communities• Health Economics• Health Impact Assessment• Health: Everyoneʼs Business• Health Services Planning in a GP

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• Improving Capacity and Capability across a diverse PH workforce

• Leading Change• Joint Strategic Needs Assessment• Patient Reported Outcome

Measures• Public Health Awareness Skills

Learning Sets• Training in Business Skills• Workplace Health


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Meeting your training needs:Further Available Courses

All PHAST training courses can be commissioned by an individual organisation to run ‘in-house’. If training is required by an organisation for a large group of staff it can become more cost effective to commission a tailored workshop. If you are interested in any of the workshops listed, or have a specific training need, please email [email protected] or visit our website at www.phast.org.uk.



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Date: Autumn 2011







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