Knowledge Brief: Implementation of maternal and perinatal death surveillance and response as part of quality of care efforts for maternal and newborn health: Considerations for synergy and alignment
This knowledge brief is developed to support policy-makers, managers, practitioners and implementing partners engaged in improving quality of care for maternal, newborn and child health (MNCH). The brief is informed by the implementation experience of the Network for Improving Quality of Care for Maternal Newborn and Child Health.
Improving the Quality of Care for Mothers and Newborns in Health Facilities – Point of care quality improvement, facilitator and learner manuals
Point of Care Quality Improvement (POCQI) is a simplified 4-step model to enable and empower health workers teams to use their local data to identify quality gaps (problems or issues), undertake root-cause analysis in their own context, and identify and implement a solution to address the identified quality problem. PDSA cycles are used to test […]
Improving Care of Mothers and Babies®: A guide for improvement teams, Africa and Asia:
This guide describes six steps to improve care and tells a story of how staff in a facility followed these six steps to provide better care. It can be used by a leader or facilitator to help others learn about improvement. It may also be used as a self-study manual by improvement teams.
National Intensive Care Unit Quality Improvement Framework – Bangladesh
This document aims to standardize the ICU development, service and its management; to provide management protocols of ICU; and to develop QI indicators/ tools for ensuring the Quality of Care in ICU.
Photo-booklet on the Quality Rights initiative in Ghana
This report presents a pictorial evaluation of the QualityRights initiative in Ghana and other activities under the World Health Organization– Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (WHO-FCDO) Mental Health project in Ghana.
Ethiopian Health Care Quality Bulletin
This bulletin includes the major initiatives under the health service quality directorate and quality improvement projects and studies selected for learning.
National Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child, Adolescent Health Quality Improvement Framework – Bangladesh
A guideline to help programme managers the service providers in designing, delivering and monitoring quality RMNCAH services in Bangladesh.
Every Mother Every Newborn (EMEN) Quality Improvement Guide for Health Facility Staff Guide
This guide will enable a health facility to organize a quality improvement team, conduct assessments, and develop effective approaches to implementing the Every Mother Every Newborn standards in order to improve the quality of care for every mother and newborn receiving care in the health facility.
New resources for point of care quality improvement
The “Coaching for Quality Improvement” and “Setting up and Managing a Quality Improvement Programme at District Level” guides are part of regional package of resources for improving the quality of care for mothers and newborns in health facilities, which also includes training manuals on point of care quality improvement’ for both facilitators and participants.
Tips and Tools for Improvement Series
These tips and tools are a set of competency-based materials to support targeted skill-building in key improvement competencies.