ABSTRACT
Environmental health practitioners and managers have observed that statutory functions are being lost, and new skills in securing funding are required to thrive in the new system, including being able to provide evidence of outcomes. I have found that environmental health practitioners see themselves as ‘doers’, compared to other public health colleagues as ‘thinkers’, and the role of evidence is key in this perception:
…the thing that I have in the back of my mind is people in the NHS seem to be very fixated with evidence based practice and, of course, environmental health, we just do it...
(Environmental health manager ID1, site 3)