The project arose from commitments made in the 2004 ‘Choosing Health’ White Paper to introduce a new public health workforce into the NHS.

The programme was initiated the project in mid-2005 and successfully brought a new workforce of 1,200 Health Trainers into being, as originally planned. The allocated funding for Health Trainers over the 3 year project life was £200m+ with a central project team budget of £10m+.

The implementation work involved chairing an implementation team of 15 hub partnerships which, in their turn, managed a national team of 85 partnerships to deliver the new workforce. Also, engaged various technical experts to assist in specialist areas such as competences, jobdescriptions, pay bands, training, national accreditation, recruitment, management and deployment.