Dear Colleague
We are writing to invite you to the 21st South West Public Health Development School, which will be taking place at St Mellion International Resort in Saltash on Wednesday 11th and Thursday 12th October 2017. Further details can be found by visiting: Development School 2017 and the booking form can be found at Development School booking form
The Development School is a unique opportunity for people working in a variety of fields relevant to public health to expand their public health horizons at our lovely golf resort venue. More information about the venue is available on the St Mellion Resort website.
The programme for this year’s school reflects our theme of Public Health Value and Visibility. There will be a wealth of opportunities for new learning and the discussion of new ideas. As always, the school will help to develop both individual practice and strengthen us as a public health community.
This year the programme format will remain similar to previous years and we have already secured a fantastic range of very interesting workshops. Again this year there will be no fringe events, instead, this free time can be used to network with colleagues or if preferred, we can make arrangements for you to hold meetings with colleagues as the school is the perfect opportunity to catch up. Please try to join us for the dinner on the 11th October if you can as the popular ‘pub quiz’ has returned to play during the evening. The whole event provides a great opportunity to network with public health colleagues, old and new, from across the South West.
Again this year we are able to offer the option of staying on site at resort. If you require accommodation, either for one night or two, please book this in advance directly with the hotel through reservations (Registrars, planning group members and those receiving a sponsored place do not need to do this).
We have agreed a single room rate of £87.50 including breakfast per night. Please call the reservations department on 01579 352001 and quote ‘NHS Health Education England' to receive the agreed rate. Payment for rooms will need to be made directly to the hotel upon check out.
When you register to attend the conference using our Development School booking form, this will be for the conference fee and evening dinner on the 11th October only. All booking details can be found at Development School 2017 and if you have any questions regarding the booking process, please contact PublicHealth.SW@hee.nhs.uk
We hope that you will be able to attend and look forward to seeing you there.
Best wishes
Maggie Rae
Head of School
SW Public Health Specialty Training Programme