UK Public Health Register

The UK Public Health Register for Public Health Specialists provides public protection by ensuring that only competent public health professionals are registered and that high standards of practice are maintained. Its objective is to promote public confidence in specialist public health practice in the UK through independent regulation. It will achieve this by:

• publishing a register of competent Public Health Specialists
• ensuring through periodic revalidation that Public Health Specialists keep up to date and maintain competence
• dealing with registered specialists who fail to meet the necessary standards

The Register provides professional regulation to specialists in Public Health from a variety of backgrounds including public health sciences, environmental health, social science, medicine, nursing, health promotion, pharmacy, psychology and dentistry. The Register is particularly for those public health specialists who have no other regulatory body.

There are currently two arms of the UKPHR: Generalist and Defined Specialist.

The UK Public Health Register can be reached here (opens in a new window).

UPDATE: The Faculty of Public Health is working to develop the UK Public Health Register (UKPHR) to include Public Health Practitioners (Level 5 of the PHSCF) and Advanced Public Health Practitioners (Level 7 of the PHSCF) in addition to Specialists who already register.

Please click here for further information.

Also in this section: Routes to register.

 

Author: Jennie Cawood, July 2008. Last updated 26 October 2009.