The programmes delivered by occupational therapists also employed a programme specific education, and regular meetings were described to have been held between the providers and the on-site project director and manager to secure a professional provision of one of those programmes [ 26].
Established lines between consumer and provider, employee and self-employed, professional and non-professional provision of services are blurred [47].
The authors highlighted a need to investigate any differences in health professionals' provision of maternity care to women of differing body size.
Continuity of care : management/coordination of treatment; staff behaviour and skills; sharing of information between different professionals; provision of information to patients.
Qualitative studies suggest that women are dissatisfied with the level of health professionals' provision of GWG information and that they may be seeking their information elsewhere [ 16, 17].
Figures on access to CAM through primary care and on health professionals' provision of CAM, therefore, might have under-represented actual CAM use among primary care patients.
Chen et al. [ 43] highlight the importance of countries across the globe improving their working environments by way of reinforcing good practices to enhance the management of resources, management of professionals, provision of sufficient access to supplies and facilities, and development of incentives, both financial and non-financial, to retain and encourage health workers.
Guskey (2002) is correct to propose that professional development provisions need to change teachers' classroom practices and student learning in order to change teachers' beliefs and attitudes towards professional development.
To sustain this effort, appropriate professional development provisions need to be given to teachers to enable and empower them to chart their own learning together with their respective school teachers and leaders.
In the Singapore case, both the MOE and school senior, middle and teacher leaders need to consider ways to provide continual professional development provisions to develop the knowledge, skills and disposition on action research of teachers.
