Professor Deirdre Heenan:

Politics, yes. When you think about it, the numbers of stakeholders are vast, not least, of course, the service users themselves. I would like to think that, as the first port of call, we would have a political agreement and then take it from there to wider stakeholders such as the unions and the professional bodies, etc., who will of course all have their own views. We have many professional bodies, but if you bring them all in a room together and hope for some sort of consensus going out the door, you might be disappointed, but if you brought together high-level politicians and policymakers to say this is possible, then there is something to sell to people, to say, "This is what you could have." From my perspective, that is how I imagine it could work.