Case study 1
Alison Pritchard
Consultant in Public Health, Training Scheme 2000–2005
I’ve only been in my current post for 18 months but my life as a public health trainee seems very distant!
I joined the Trent Non-Medical Public Health Training Scheme (as it was then known) in 2000 along with eight other trainees. This was the first scheme of its kind in Trent and we felt very much like pioneers.
Initially the specialist training scheme in Trent was managed and funded separately from the medical