ABSTRACT
The National Health Service Continuing Education Unit (NHS CEU) was set up in 1979 at York University, with a brief to develop a mid-career education service for architectural staff at NHS Regional Health Authorities throughout the United Kingdom (UK). The NHS CEU was by no means the sole educational provider for the offices within our remit, and with only three staff at the Unit dealing with over one thousand clients throughout the UK, authors never aspired to this position. The provider role also jarred with the developing educational policy at the Unit, which viewed successful professional learning as a process of reflection upon practice and the active development of new strategies, rather than as the acquisition of received wisdom from experts. NHS CEU maintained a slimmed-down provider role, taking around the country a cycle of workshops individually designed for each office in consultation with the facilitators.
