Many providers felt that expanding and promoting midwifery services would improve the use of PNC among inner-city women.
Many providers felt this could save time during appointments and meet the perceived need of many parents to have more information than providers may have time to convey.
Many providers felt that the SRH needs of HIV-positive people were not unique – but similar to those of uninfected individuals.
In particular, many providers felt that their salaries were poor and incommensurate with their new set of integrated tasks and the associated workload.
Many providers felt highly anxious and frustrated by having to manage competing and intense pressures within the constraints of limited resources, further fueling a sense of marginalisation from the present context: I lie awake at night, worrying that I will be sued, my house and car repossessed, my family compromised by these challenges.
They often end up taking a nosedive into depression, anger and eventually hopelessness but on the other side, many service providers feel helpless because it isn't their fault they no longer have funding to really help people stay off the streets.
Yet many primary care providers feel ill-equipped or inadequately supported to address obesity in patients with diabetes.
Even though many health care providers feel that more should be done to assist patients to stop smoking, they may lack confidence or training in how to provide smoking cessation services.
Many service providers felt that they lacked the capacity to provide appropriate SRH service to women with disability, stating that they had had no training in the area.
However, despite these concerns many healthcare providers felt that a financial incentive might help to increase the perceived value of breastfeeding, reinforcing other health promotion messages about the importance of breastfeeding.
