School of Public Health - Training Locations

This page describes the current list of training teams and organisations that have GMC approval as training locations. They have all given organisational commitment to providing a quality training environment, and all have one or more experienced educational supervisors, who have their training responsibilities acknowledged in their job plans.

Trainees are allocated to one of the 3 ‘zones’ for the duration of their training: Cheshire and Merseyside, Cumbria and Lancashire, or Greater Manchester.

Please click on the links below to access information on training locations.

Cheshire and Merseyside

Training Location	Lead Trainer
Cheshire East Council	Matthew Atkinson
Cheshire East Council split placement with East Cheshire NHS Trust (Macclesfield Hospital)	Matthew Atkinson
Cheshire West and Chester Council	Helen Bromley
Halton Borough Council	Julia Rosser
Knowsley Council	Richard Holford
Liverpool City Council	Emer Coffey
UKHSA: Cheshire and Merseyside Health Protection Team	Wicki Dardamissus
Sefton Metropolitan Borough Council	Cath Taylor
St Helens Council	Shirley Goodhew
Warrington Borough Council updated 25 March 2026	Sheila Paul
St Helens Council	Ruth DuPlessis
Wirral Council	Tracy Flute
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	Paula Parvulescu
North Cheshire and Mersey NHS Foundation Trust	Thara Raj
Cheshire and Mersey Integrated Care Board	Ian Ashworth
Liverpool Council with Violence Reduction Partnership	Emer Coffey

Cumbria and Lancashire

Training Location	Lead Trainer
Westmorland and Furness Council	Matt Saunders
Cumberland Council	Carol Stewart
Lancashire County Council	Sakthi Karunanithi
Blackpool Council	Judith Mills
Blackburn with Darwen Council	Laura Wharton
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	Heather Catt
North Cumbria University Hospitals NHS Trust	Leslie Jones
UKHSA: Cumbria and Lancashire Health Protection Team	Matthieu Pegorie
Westmorland General Hospital	Chris Chiswell

Greater Manchester

Training Location	Lead Trainer
Bolton Council	Nicki Lomax
Bury Council	Jon Hobday
Manchester City Council	Sarah Doran
Oldham Council	Charlotte Stevenson
UKHSA: Greater Manchester Health Protection Team	Liz Stratford
Rochdale Council	Kuiama Thompson
Salford Council	Gillian McLauchlan
Stockport Council	Ben Fryer
Tameside Council	James Mallion
Trafford Council	Kate Shethwood
Wigan Council	Laura Wharton
Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust	Alistair Craig
Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust	Simon Watts
NHS GM Integrated Care Partnership
Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	Annie Lowe

North West Training Locations

Training Location	Lead Trainer
University of Liverpool	Ben Barr
Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine	David Ishola
NHS England – North West, Public Health Directorate	Rachael Gosling
OHID: Northwest Health and Wellbeing regional Team	Fiona Reynolds
Lancaster University	Heather Brown
Edge Hill University	Paola Dey
National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE)	Judith Richardson
University of Manchester	Paula Whittaker
Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust	Rachel Isba
Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust and Wigan Council	Annie Lowe

Potential Placements

Agreement with external ES required. Discuss with TPD before nominating.

Training Location	Lead Trainer
North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust (NWAS)	Chris Grant
Lancashire Violence Reduction Network
National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE)

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