The public health workforce: overdue for attention

The public health workforce: overdue for attention There were times in the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic when the decision-makers in Whitehall (including in the Department of Health and Social Care) gave the impression that they did not know what or who their directors of public health (DsPH) were, or how to use them. The 134 DsPH, based in local authorities across the country, were left battling Covid-19 while essential information failed to reach them from the centre. The King's Fund