Table 1.

Peer mentors recruitment, training and deployment

	London	Nottinghamshire/Derbyshire
Time spent on recruitment by staff (months)	12	15
Expressed interest (n)	130	79
Trained (n)	50	21
Disengaged (n)	19	14
Volunteered (n)	31	7
Time from trained to deployed (days)	Mean 132 (range, 21-255)	Mean 155 (range, 75-257)

This table shows the time taken to recruit peer mentors in both trial sites, the numbers of individuals who expressed an interest in becoming a peer mentor, those who were trained, disengaged and volunteered, and the time it took from when peer mentors were trained to when they began their volunteering at both trial sites.