Dr. Siobh?n N? Bhriain:

We wanted multidisciplinary teams. When setting up the teams, we wanted to have a respiratory specialist, someone with knowledge of infectious diseases and access to psychological and psychiatric services. We asked each area to look at their what they needed across a range of nursing, health and social care professionals, including physiotherapy, occupational therapy and psychology. We asked the teams to look at what they had access to and what they needed most. We were saying that teams needed to be multidisciplinary but to go for people that they needed most in the area because if they already had a nurse or physiotherapist who could provide that function, that it might be better to bring in somebody different. We took a pragmatic approach, with a basic requirement that there would be consultant-led teams with input from nursing and health and social care professionals and access to psychological and psychiatric services. Does Ms Clarke want to expand on that?