Further investigation along this line is justified and should consider impact on patient care, health practitioners, workforce capacity and staff retention.
In 2005, consultation during early programme development between Childsmile's executive planning committee, public and oral health specialists (including NHS consultants in dental public health) and the General Dental Council, raised the concern that general dental practitioners' (GDPs) capacity could potentially act as a barrier to the delivery of preventive care as recommended by the programme.
Reasoning also goes beyond the cognitive to the meta-cognitive and takes into account the practitioner's capacity for self-appraisal and self-monitoring.
The research protocol was accepted by the hospital's ethics committee and written consent was obtained from all participating patients (and/or from their relatives and/or general practitioner if capacity to consent was profoundly altered).
Based on lessons drawn from their own projects, practitioners need unique capacities to appropriately address children's traumas, and an experiential approach is necessary to address conflict resolution and creating compassion for the "other".
Therefore, education managers and practitioners have the capacity to monitor and alter the learning and teaching practices designed and implemented to promote community among the student cohort in a just-in-time environment.
Third, in becoming aware of these matters, practitioners gain the capacity to intervene in their habits.
Our findings also raised questions both about patients' confidence in general practitioners and the capacity of the primary care sector to deliver such a service.
The relative importance of each core competency remains unclear, as does their respective temporal ordering, which precludes agreement among practitioners about which capacity building framework is superior [ 47].
To develop a new generation of TCM practitioners with the capacity to provide quality and comprehensive care, a stronger role for the government, including sufficient public funding, in promoting TCM graduates' careers and training development is suggested.
