Eight years on

✍ Scribed by Alan Kershaw

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 94 KB
• Volume: 47
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1355-0306
• DOI: 10.1016/j.scijus.2007.07.002

✦ Synopsis

Eight years on

Being interviewed for the post of first Chief Executive of CRFP, eight years ago, I was asked how long I would intend to stay if appointed. Straight off the top of my head I said "Five years minimum, ten years maximum". I'm a man of my word. The organisation has developed and the job with it: time for someone new to take things on, and I wish Peter Ablett nothing but the best.

To a specialist in professional regulation there is no challenge as exciting as establishing a new organisation. Sound preliminary work had been done but policies, structures, procedures and rules were all largely