All registrants are required to pay an annual registration fee. We maintain a table of fees and other costs on our website. Registration fees vary according to the category. For applicants seeking to register as public health specialists by way of retrospective portfolio assessment there is additionally an pre-application and portfolio assessment fee to pay in advance.

UKPHR regards all specialists on our register of equal measure and therefore the two categories of specialist registration, defined and generalist, as equivalent. Defined specialist registration responds to the need of employers for specialists with a higher level of expertise in particular areas of public health, such as health protection, health improvement or public health information, amongst others. Defined specialists work at the same very senior level as generalist specialists. UKPHR requires that generalist and defined specialist registrants have exactly the same knowledge base. Generalist and defined specialists also are required to have the same skills across all the core areas of public health: surveillance and assessment of the population’s health and well-being; assessing the evidence of effectiveness of health and healthcare programmes and services; policy and strategy development and implementation; and leadership and collaborative working for health.

In order to create and maintain a high quality public health service we need a public health workforce that is trained, self confident and professionally skilled. We seek to ensure that the skills they have are consistent across the entire regulated public health workforce. To achieve this, UKPHR is committed to: supporting employers in all sectors; health, local government, the voluntary and private sectors to recruit and retain an appropriately regulated multi-disciplinary and multi-professional workforce who are able to address the complex demands and challenges of the public health needs in the 21st Century ensuring that the skills and competencies of all of the regulated public health workforce are fit for purpose and appropriately regulated across all four nations of the UK promoting and ensuring co-operation between regulatory and standard setting bodies to assure employers, commissioners of services and the public that the quality of public health practice is consistent across the breadth of the regulated public health workforce ensuring that standards and training requirements are kept under regular review and updated as necessary investigating complaints about the conduct or performance of any registrant, ensuring that action is taken against their continuing registration in the event of serious shortcomings being identified ensuring robust procedures are in place for the implementation of professional revalidation, which are consistent among the relevant regulators

Protecting and improving health and well being of our communities and ensuring fair access to good quality healthcare services are objectives that lie at the heart of Public Health. The purpose of UKPHR is to provide public assurance for the provision of a competent workforce that contributes to a high quality public health service to deliver those objectives.