Dr. Rosalyn Tamming:

There is not a standard. The core occupational therapy, speech and language therapists, physios and psychologists are found in all of the teams. The other professionals then vary. Some have behavioural therapists, some have nurses who play a really crucial role in some services but other services do not have them, and there are social care workers. Now we have the assistant therapists coming in, which will also be a new role. It is important that this is systematically implemented throughout all of the teams. Part of the work we will do in part 2 is looking at the different types of staff on the team. We do not necessarily want to be too prescriptive. We want to have equality across the teams but also a little bit of flexibility for some teams if they have very high levels of deprivation. Maybe they need more social care workers than, for example, a team in a more affluent area. A little bit of flexibility but a little bit more standardisation at the same time is probably what it needs to come to.