With 30 MST teams now operating across 26 sites in England, five teams across three sites in Scotland and three teams in Belfast, Northern Ireland, the United Kingdom has expanded rapidly over the last few years.
In 2001, when a group in London and another in Cambridge secured local funding to start the first MST teams, leaders within the UK government kept a keen eye on their progress. In 2007, buoyed by the success of these pioneering teams, the Department for Education and Department of Health funded 10 additional teams.