I am glad that Hanly came out against a career service officer grade. That has been a disaster in Britain. This grade is filled by people who, usually due to financial or domestic reasons, had not got the qualifications to get consultant posts. This was fine for a few years but the individuals became extremely dissatisfied seeing junior colleagues with less experience promoted over them and many felt they had wasted the time they should have spent trying to get their exams. It was one of the most dissatisfied groups of people I have ever met.