Perry及其同事对大曼彻斯特地区癌症手术供应重组计划的研究突显了在成功变革中考虑历史的重要性。在这篇简短评论中，我详细说明了Perry及其同事的一些关键发现。我注意到大曼彻斯特地区的变革领导者将正式的变革管理专业知识与对本地环境的敏感性相结合，通过关注可能破坏整个过程的关系、事件和假设的细节来增强他们的变革方式。我为他人提供了如何最好考虑历史来引导变革的经验教训，特别强调了需要尝试去获取和理解可能被压制、难以表述或被边缘化的历史形式。© 2023 作者；由凯尔曼医学科学大学出版。本文为开放获取文章，依据创作共享归属许可证（http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0）进行无限制使用、传播和复制，前提是原始作品被恰当引用。

Perry and colleagues' study of a programme to reconfigure cancer surgery provision in Greater Manchester highlights the importance of accounting for history in making successful change. In this short commentary, I expand on some of Perry and colleagues' key findings. I note the way in which those leading change in Greater Manchester combined formal expertise in change management with sensitivity to local context, enhancing their approach to change through attention to details around relationships, events and assumptions that might otherwise have derailed the process. I identify lessons for others in how best to account for history in leading change, highlighting in particular the need to attempt to access and understand forms of history that may be suppressed, difficult-to-articulate, or otherwise marginalised.© 2023 The Author(s); Published by Kerman University of Medical Sciences This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.