In addition, they felt that the provision of the one-stop consultation with its integrated data collection book resulted in a more efficient service delivery, with less time spent on administrative tasks.
To them it made much more sense to attend a mother with her child in a single, one-stop consultation, than to attend the child first, and have the mother return later that same day to the same consultation room for her own attendance.
The intervention consisted of a reorganization of MCH services, to deliver integrated, one-stop, consultations for mothers and their children up to 5 years of age.
Overall, the delivery of integrated, one-stop, consultations for mother and child was perceived as feasible in all intervention health facilities, despite some structural difficulties in one facility.
The integration of mother and child health care into one-stop consultations was found to be feasible and acceptable to the personnel of the selected rural public healthcare facilities in Tete Province, Mozambique.
Another popular statement will be the exhortation to "stop pointless consultation".
One woman saw her dermatologist for advice about the safety in pregnancy of her acne medication (she was advised to stop); the consultation focused only on this topic and she received all her nutritional and supplement advice from her sister, a naturopathic nutritionist.
Once it becomes obvious that your customer is no longer interested in buying, or that your product will no longer match the needs of your customer, it is best to stop the consultation then and there.
Along similar lines, the integration of care for mother and child into a one-stop, integrated consultation might have the potential to improve the follow-up of HIV-exposed infants by reducing missed opportunities for care.
To test this theory, she stopped the consultations, and embarked on her Beauty Recovery Room project.
Speaking in Istanbul, where he stopped for consultations on the way home from New York, General Musharraf said that the military occupation of Kabul was a cause of "atrocities of the past and they must not be repeated".
