TY - JOUR T1 - Back to the future? JF - Future Hospital Journal JO - Future Hosp J SP - 72 LP - 74 DO - 10.7861/futurehosp.3-1-72 VL - 3 IS - 1 AU - Douglas Seaton Y1 - 2016/02/01 UR - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/3/1/72.abstract N2 - The author reflects on his personal experience of some of the changes that have affected the NHS over the last four decades and expresses his concern about its current direction of travel. Douglas Seaton trained in Liverpool and Morgantown, West Virginia. He was appointed as a consultant in general and respiratory medicine at Ipswich Hospital in 1978, and retired from clinical practice in 2006. ER -