Knowledge Brief: Five functions to improve quality of care for maternal newborn and child health
This 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.
Assessing the quality of care for children attending health facilities: a systematic review of assessment tools
Using the WHO ‘Standards for improving quality of care for children and young adolescents in health facilities’ as a reference standard, this paper aims to evaluate existing tools that assess quality of care for children.
Integrating stakeholder and community engagement in quality of care initiatives for maternal, newborn and child health
This module aims to make stakeholder and community engagement an integral part of quality improvement initiatives and suggests approaches to make stakeholder and community engagement comprehensive and meaningful.
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 […]
Technical brief: Nutrition Quality of Care for Maternal, Newborn, Child, and Adolescent Health
The primary objective of the brief is to raise awareness among nutrition and MNCAH stakeholders (country and global) of the nutrition QoC standards, and of the opportunities to apply the standards to improve the quality of integrated MNCAH and nutrition services. The brief highlights early learning from three QoC Network countries (Nigeria, Ethiopia, and Ghana) […]
Quality, Equity and Dignity: Every Woman Every Child, advocacy road map
The Every Woman Every Child Advocacy Roadmap was developed to advocate for quality, equity, dignity in health services for mothers and newborns. The roadmap outlines strategies required for progress and key indicators to measure success.
Quality of Care for Maternal and Newborn Health: A Monitoring Framework for Network Countries
This is the revised version, dated February 2019, of the Quality of Care Network monitoring framework, first published in February 2017 as ‘Brief 8’ in a package of briefs setting the broad orientations for the Network.
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.
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.
A mapping and synthesis of tools for stakeholder and community engagement in quality improvement initiatives for reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health
Stakeholder and community engagement promotes collaboration and gives service users an opportunity to actively participate in the care they receive. This document identifies tools and operational guidance to integrate stakeholder and community engagement into quality improvement implementation.