title: Experience of directing a national laboratory animals centre.
abstract: The challenges of managing a facility serving a new and developing science are outlined. Basic to success are the appropriate handling of aspects such as staff selection, line management, financial support, changing demands, training and relations with staff unions, welfare organisations and at the international level.
mesh_terms: D000047:Academies and Institutes / Q000458:organization & administration*; D000818:Animals; D000830:Animals, Laboratory; D006113:United Kingdom; D014824:Vivisection