Professor Orla Hardiman:

At present, the training programme for these types of specialty services is through a mentorship system where the professional engages with an expert perhaps not of the same profession. For example, often it would be nurses engaging with doctors and learning on the ground. There is a role, of course, within the higher education sector to develop programmes of training and professional development, which is currently something that in my other job within the university is very clear. Certainly, the nursing services across the universities are alive to the need for that. It will be a combination of professional training with mentoring and educational programmes, which clearly will have to be resourced as well.