Welcome back Jim. It's good to know that you are listening in. It would be great if more of your council (Assessors' Panel) would contibute to this forum. One of the biggest issues many of us have is the lack of communication with the VRCT. This forum must be one of the best ways of getting your views out there. I'm sure we'd appreciate input from other members of the assessors' panel on many of the threads found on this site whether it be management issues, equipment issues or even jokes, we need to know that you guys are human after all.

As to the content of your posting, I still beleive that we are poles apart in our views on how best to push forward our profession(s). I do hope that the advent of Quality Assured Voluntary Regulation allows us the opportunity to reassess what has gone before and try to create a more open, accessible and relevant body to represent ALL our cohorts whether they be from the NHS, MES or other maintenance bodies.