 In 1953, Rose served for six years on the Central Health Services Council which was set up to advise the Minister of Health on all technical matters in the running of the National Health Service (NHS), and he sat for nine years on the NHS Tribunal, a judicial body which determined whether doctors who had been convicted of serious offences should be employed.His commitment to his practice and committee work was to the detriment of his leisure time and he noted in 1962 that "I have arrived at the stage where evenings, half days and weekends are all submerged in one thing or another.