Creative subversion

During my time in the British National Health Service, I have lived through so many reorganisations that I have literally lost count. When I first started out as a general practitioner (GP) around thirty years ago, my work was supervised by a Family Practitioner Committee. In time, this was replaced by a Family Health Services Authority. That was superseded by a Primary Care Group and then a Primary Care Trust. These were abolished quite recently, so that the profession is now supervised by Clinical Commissioning Groups. I also held a part-time job in secondary care and worked in a place that was initially called a Clinic, then a Trust, and is now a Foundation Trust. The health service itself was originally run by a Department of Health and Social Security, until it split and became a Department of Health, later passing over responsibility in fairly rapid succession...
Source: Postgraduate Medical Journal - Category: Journals (General) Authors: Tags: On reflection Source Type: research