Dear HIFA and CHIFA colleagues,
Introduction and a comment from me below. Read online and download report here: https://www.who.int/news/item/15-09-2022-improving-the-quality-of-care-f...
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Improving the quality of care for maternal, newborn and child health: implementation guide for national, district and facility levels
The Department of Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health, and Ageing launched new Implementation Guidance: Improving the quality of care for maternal, newborn and child health: implementation guide for national, district and facility levels. The Implementation guide is a "living document" that has been developed from the rich implementation experience emerging from the 10 countries in the Network to Improve the Quality of Care for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health, and from implementing and technical partners in support of that work. Since 2017, the Network has been working as a leaders learning hub exchanging ideas for implementation, acceleration and scale-up for quality MNH care. This Implementation Guide contains practical guidance for policymakers, programme managers, health practitioners and other actors working to establish and implement quality of care programmes for maternal, newborn and child health at national, district and facility levels. It is intended to help anyone, throughout the health system, who wants to take action to improve the Quality of Care for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health.
In addition, and complementary to the Implementation Guide, the new Learning Guide for MNCH QoC was developed: Guidance on developing national learning health-care systems to sustain and scale up delivery of quality maternal, newborn and child health care. This Learning Guide provides direction on how countries can develop and strengthen national learning health care systems to learn how to improve, sustain, and scale-up Quality of Care for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health. It is a working document that will be updated as new guidance comes in from the field. The guide is meant for health system managers, QoC implementing partners, researchers, policymakers, and health care providers involved in developing and implementing QoC programmes at the facility, district, and national levels.
"This guide provides direction on how countries can develop and strengthen national learning health-care systems to learn how to improve, sustain and scale up QoC for MNCH. It is a working document that will be updated as new guidance comes in from the field. This guide is meant for health system managers, QoC implementing partners, researchers, policy-makers and health-care providers involved in developing and implementing QoC programmes at the facility, district and national levels. This learning guidance is based on a conceptual framework for national learning health-care systems to sustain and scale up delivery of quality health care." - WHO -
COMMENTS (NPW):
1. This guide refers to (and appears to build on) the 2020 general publication 'Quality health services: a planning guide', which we have discussed on HIFA in our WHO-supported discussions on Learning for quality health services xxxx
2. The structure of the guide reflects the 2020 publication with focus on national, district and facility levels. This would appear to facilitate the use of the two publications side by side, and avoid the confusion that might arise from using a diiferent approach.
3. The development of the publication was enabled by the 'Network to Improve the Quality of Care for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health'. It would be interesting to learn more about how this network works,commuicates and coordinates, and how it might synergise with other communities of practice such as HIFA and CHIFA. Also, are there ather comparable networks in other areas of health?
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All best wishes, Neil
Coordinator, WHO-HIFA project on Learning for Quality Health Services
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HIFA profile: Neil Pakenham-Walsh is coordinator of the HIFA global health movement (Healthcare Information For All - www.hifa.org ), a global community with more than 20,000 members in 180 countries, interacting on six global forums in four languages in collaboration with WHO. HIFA brings stakeholders together to accelerate progress towards universal access to reliable healthcare information. HIFA is administered by Global Healthcare Information Network, a UK based non-profit in official relations with the World Health Organization.
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Best wishes, Neil
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