Dr. Brian Motherway:

Potentially, yes, but not necessarily. It is absolutely essential that everybody does it well. We recently published what we believed was best practice in this area. Other counties may believe they can do it just as well by other means, but why not use our methodology? Given that it is brand new, it is probably time to test it a few times and refine it. We consider it to be a live document. I could certainly see a point in the future where it would be better to have it mandatory, but that may not be the case until we prove it on the ground a few times. We piloted it in a few counties and it has gone very well. We have also learned from the counties that have done their own thing.

We would not like to trammel those who are ahead of the curve and doing good things by themselves, but yes, it could reach that point.