Approaches to support quality improvement teams to use quality improvement techniques
The Quality of Care Network held a webinar on ‘Approaches to support quality improvement teams to use quality improvement techniques’. Maureen Tshabalala highlighted the key drivers for quality improvement for maternal and newborn health at the facility level. She told the stories of two quality improvement collaboratives in South Africa and Malawi, which demonstrated the […]
Sustaining improvement
The Network for Improving Quality of Care for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (Quality of Care Network) held a webinar on ‘Point of care quality improvement for maternal and newborn health – Step 4: Sustaining improvement’ on 29 June. Nigel Livesley present ideas for quality improvement teams to ‘hardwire’ a quality improvement project in order […]
Developing and testing changes
The Network for Improving Quality of Care for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (Quality of Care Network) held a webinar on ‘Point of care quality improvement for maternal and newborn health – Step 3: Developing and testing changes’ on 15 June. Dr Esther Karamagi presented the work of a quality improvement team in a facility […]
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 […]
Step 1: Identify the problem, form a team, write and aim statement
On 28 April, the Quality of Care Network organised a webinar on ‘Point of care quality improvement, step1: Identify the problem, build a team, write an aim statement’. Blerta MALIQI presented the organisation’s quality of care framework and the Quality of Care Network. Ashok Deorari introduced the participants to how they can review data and […]
Point of care quality improvement for maternal and newborn health
The first webinar on point of care quality improvement was held on 29 March 2017. The materials and references from the webinar are on the right hand side (Photo: In March 2005 in India, a nurse is teaching a mother how to breastfeed a newborn child. ©UNICEF/Khemka)