The role of MPDSR in delivering quality care for maternal and newborn health
This webinar launched the 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’. The webinar included a presentation on the content of the new Knowledge Brief presenting MPDSR as a key intervention to support the delivery […]
Uganda National Learning Forum
In May 2022, Uganda hosted its first national Maternal, Newborn Health Quality of Care Forum to discuss progress and share examples and experiences of implementing Quality Care for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health. This webinar documented and shared positive experiences, challenges, practical solutions and lessons learned by Uganda in implementing and scaling up quality of […]
Manyata: Sustaining Quality Assurance Accreditation for Maternal Health Care in India’s Private Sector
Despite one in every three facility births occurring in private facilities in India, efforts to improve the quality of maternal health around the time of birth have largely focused on public health facilities in the country. Manyata, a certification programme with both quality improvement and assurance components, is designed to strengthen quality of maternal health […]
Referrals and maternal complications
This webinar discussed measures that countries have taken to ensure continuity of quality maternal health services at a time when COVID-19 mitigation measures are impacting access to essential health services. Speakers presented how health professionals have changed the way they provide quality care around the time of childbirth – especially when it comes to referrals […]
What the numbers say (session1)
PRESENTATIONS ARE POSTED IN THE RIGHT HAND MENU Summary Newborns are the most vulnerable when health systems are stretched. With only 10 years to meet the SDGs, and the COVID-19 pandemic threatening to lose hard-won gains, we need to act fast to transform care for the most vulnerable. Improving care for newborns does not only […]
Quality improvement that works: Mentoring, supervision and involving the community Lessons
The Network for Improving Quality of Care for Maternal and Newborn Health (Quality of Care Network), organized a webinar to share some of the lessons from the Maternal and Neonatal Implementation for Equitable Systems (MANIFEST) project which the Makerere University School of Public Health run in 2012-2015. The study was conducted in three districts in […]
Step 2: Analysing the problem and measuring quality of care
The Quality of Care Network organised a webinar on ‘Point of care quality improvement, step 2: analysing the problem measuring quality of care’ on 17 May, 2017. Pierre Barker explained how the Quality of Care Network is designed to support quality improvement. He presented possible frameworks to organize change ideas, measurement systems, and tools to […]