Ms Magdalen Rogers:

The specialist model of care for rehabilitation services sets out the recommended staffing for community neurorehabilitation teams. At the moment, the national steering group is looking at a staffing of about 11 staff members, and that would include all the core disciplines, including speech and language therapy and occupational therapy, but ,critically, also services like neuropsychology and social work, which would be part of these teams. What we are seeing around the country is the existing teams within CHO 1 and CHO 3 not having reached that staff complement. It is critical that all the teams are staffed to the same degree, and also within the specialist recommendations.