Embedding Public Health into Clinical Services
A practical, five-step toolkit to help clinical teams shift from treatment-only to prevention-first service design – using improvement methods, stakeholder engagement, and real-world case studies you can adapt to your setting.
Practical tools, templates and resources linked to each step
Who is this Critical Appraisal course for?
- Clinicians
- Service Managers
- Clinical Leaders
- Public Health Leads
What’s on this page?
Introduction to Embedding Public Health into Clinical Services
Designed for people leading or supporting service change who want to make prevention a practical part of day-to-day clinical delivery.
You’ll work through a structured toolkit that helps you identify relevant local priorities, define where your service can add the most value, and turn a prevention ambition into measurable improvement work.
The approach is built to be pragmatic –supporting small, iterative changes that can be sustained in real services, with tools and prompts you can use with multidisciplinary teams.
After completing this course, you should be able to:
- Identify local public health and prevention priorities relevant to your service.
- Map your team’s skills and current activity to find quick wins and gaps.
- Draft a clear prevention vision for your service that others can commit to.
- Identify and engage stakeholders to shape and support the vision.
You can also:
- Develop and test change ideas that implement the vision in practice.
- Use improvement methods (including PDSA) and measurement to learn what works.
- Evaluate impact, document learning, and plan for sustainability or spread.
Course features
- A structured five-step process for prevention-focused service redesign.
- Practical tools, templates and resources linked to each step.
- Reflection/notes prompts to support team discussion and planning.
- Downloadable workbook format for quick reference.
- Additional case studies showing application in AHP scenarios.
Why choose eIntegrity?
Built around a clear, repeatable process you can apply to real services—not abstract theory.
Designed for leaders and managers working with multidisciplinary teams under real-world pressure.
Helps you move from “prevention matters” to “here’s what we’ll change, how we’ll test it, and how we’ll prove it”.
Uses tools for stakeholder engagement, improvement methods, and evaluation to support sustainable change.
Course content overview
The toolkit is organised into three sections, taking you from the case for prevention through to practical delivery and evaluation. You’ll work through a five-step change process designed to help you define priorities, build commitment, test improvements, and evidence impact—supported by prompts and resources you can use with your team.
- Subject areas covered: The case for prevention; creating conditions for improvement; five steps to developing prevention-focused services.
- What’s included: Downloadable workbook; linked tools/resources per step; reflection/notes space; case studies.
- Scale: Five-step toolkit (Steps 1–5 covering priorities, vision, stakeholders, test/measure, and evaluation).
Who developed this course?
The Embedding Public Health into Clinical Services course was developed through a national collaboration between Health Education England (HEE), Public Health England (PHE), NHS England, and the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities (OHID).
Bringing together expertise in workforce development, population health, clinical leadership and health improvement, the project was created to help clinical teams integrate prevention‑focused approaches into everyday practice. The contributing organisations combined their knowledge of education, service delivery and public health policy to produce a practical, evidence‑based resource that supports clinicians in delivering proactive, prevention‑led care across all settings.
Clinical Leads
Our Embedding Public Health into Clinical Services toolkit
- Understanding the potential contribution of your clinical services
- Creating a prevention vision for your services
- Engaging stakeholders to shape and support the vision
- Develop, test and measure a plan to implement your vision
- Evaluating your improvement
Access 24/7
The Embedding Public Health into Clinical Services course is delivered entirely online, allowing you to learn at home, in work or even while travelling.
With most sessions designed to take around 20 minutes, you can move through the material flexibly, dipping in and out whenever it suits your schedule. This makes it an ideal way to strengthen your understanding of research and develop practical appraisal skills, even when balancing a demanding professional life.
After completing a module, you can easily access your course completion certificate through the eIntegrity Hub and store it for your personal records. Keeping your certificate safe ensures you can demonstrate your learning progress whenever required, supporting ongoing development across your clinical career.
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Comparing the cost of prevention‑focused service redesign training
Traditional public‑health or service‑improvement training can be costly, especially when delivered through face‑to‑face workshops or multi‑day programmes. With the Embedding Public Health into Clinical Services course, you gain online access to a complete suite of structured, practical learning for one clear subscription fee. This makes developing prevention‑focused skills far more predictable and cost‑effective than organising multiple standalone training sessions or consultancy‑led workshops.
How to get started
Simply enrol through the eIntegrity platform to begin working through the five‑step toolkit at your own pace. Each session is short, flexible and easy to complete whenever time allows, making it simple to build prevention‑focused knowledge around busy clinical or managerial duties.
Who is this programme suitable for?
This course is designed for all health and care professionals involved in service delivery, redesign or improvement, including:
- Clinicians
- Allied Health Professionals
- Service managers
- Clinical leaders
- Public health leads
- Quality‑improvement teams
- Educators
- Trainees and early‑career staff
The programme supports anyone looking to embed prevention within their service, engage stakeholders effectively and apply practical tools to design measurable, sustainable improvements that meet local population needs.
