'I've never found doctors to be a difficult bunch': doctors, managers and NHS reorganisations in Manchester and Salford, 1948-2007.

...If I had done that with ...the professor of orthopaedics, oh he’d have thrown a fit and it would have been quite different ...I was actually able to work and build kind of team-thinking and team-working in this setting quite comfortably ...we built up quite interesting management structures and management philosophies from very early on ...that was probably very naïve at first but gradually more significant ...those two things together, the culture of sharing decision-making and the opportunity for growth in the specialisation ...were really quite significant’. 71 Salford and psychiatry may have been untypical but Sang’s experience reveals the positive aspects of consensus management from an administrator’s point of view.

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