Every Newborn Action Plan Progress report 2017

This WHO and UNICEF report details the country leadership and actions that are taking forward the goals and recommendations set out in the Every Newborn Action Plan . In 2016, 51 countries completed the Every Newborn Tracking Tool, which tracks progress.

Operational guide for facility-based audit and review of paediatric mortality

This operational guide provides guidance for establishing and conducting paediatric death audit and review as part of the overall quality of care improvement at the health facility. Death review or mortality audit is a means of documenting the causes of a death and the factors that contributed to it, identifying factors that could be modified […]

Handbook for National Quality Policy and Strategy

The World Health Organization has released a Handbook for national quality policy and strategy, as part of its Global initiative on national quality policy and strategy. Such policy and strategy can help clarify the structures, roles and responsibilities within national quality efforts, support the institutionalization of a culture of quality, and secure buy-in from health […]

National Patient Safety Strategic Plan – Bangladesh

This strategic plan will be useful to the planners, policy makers, health manager and health care providers at different levels to understand details about patient safety issue.

Situational analysis report – Study on engaging the private sector in delivering quality maternal and newborn health services in Bangladesh

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.