ABSTRACT
The Goodenough1 Committee produced a detailed report on medical education in 1944 - the bulk of which was orientated towards undergraduate medical schools. This committee had been formed to recommend on the place of teaching hospitals and their medical schools in the pattern of nationalised medicine which was at that time taking shape; as a consequence, when the NHS came into being, the teaching hospitals were left outside the regional hospital network and placed under the control of independent boards of governors (which included representatives of the medical staff, the schools and the university) who were directly answerable to the Minister.
