Health written question – answered at on 26 July 2007.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what progress has been made on the introduction of health trainers; and in which primary care trusts they have been employed.
Progress on the introduction of health trainers to date has been good:
as forecast and planned, 1,200 health trainers have been trained and are in post as of 2006-07 year end; competences have been signed off and exemplar job descriptions have been developed for tailoring by local health trainer partnerships; a national implementation team has been put in place and now provides full regional coverage; local training programmes have been developed and local evaluation has been put in place; national accreditation has been developed, with support from technical advisers Skills for Health, to provide City and Guilds Level 3 and Royal Institute for Public Health Level 2 awards; prisons have begun to introduce health trainers to the system, with around 80 health trainers now in place;
the Army expects to have trained 450 physical training instructor as health trainers by December 2007, with plans for a further 2,000 personnel to receive training in 2008;
Royal Mail plans to train some of their first aid staff as workplace health trainers; the programme is also working with organisations such as Asda, Marks & Spencer, National Pharmacies and Football Foundation, and;
The Minister of State for Public Health (Dawn Primarolo) presented the first workplace Health Trainer certificate to Audrey Carlin, of T Allen Stockholder Ltd., on
Health trainers are employed in a variety of settings and the plurality of employment models means that we do not collect data by individual primary care trust.
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