Public Health Skills and Knowledge Framework (PHSKF). Evaluation and quality assurance framework

Bornioli, Anna; Evans, David; Muttaqi, Sana

Abstract

The Public Health Skills and Knowledge Framework (PHSKF) is a key tool for the public health workforce across the four UK nations. A first version was published in 2008 as the Public Health Skills and Career Framework. This original framework was structured around nine levels of competence and skills and nine areas of the Faculty of Public Health curriculum. This framework was graphically represented as a nine-by-nine cube, and often colloquially referred to as ‘the cube.’
In 2015, Public Health England led an extensive consultation on this original framework which resulted in clear expressions of the need to simplify and condense the presentation and content. The result was a significantly simplified framework (the PHSKF), published in 2016 by Public Health England on behalf of the public health agencies of all four UK nations (2016b). The current evaluation was agreed in late 2018 to take stock of that re-design and inform the development of a proposed digital version of the PHSKF.

• Report Type: Technical Report
• Peer Reviewed: Not Peer Reviewed
• Keywords: public health, PHSKF
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/1493484