Taking forward the demand for sharing country experiences of challenges faced, solutions sought and lesson learned, this series of webinars will run from May 2021 to May 2022, This series builds on the content of the series that began in 2020 which focused on country experiences to transform care and the evidence-base published in the WHO and UNICEF report Survive and Thrive; Transforming care for every small and sick newborn (2019). These webinars will accompany the learning and experience implementing the WHO Standards for improving the quality of care for small and sick newborns in health facilities (2020) and related guidance for their implementation. 

This webinar firstly deep dived into the new standards of care for small and sick newborns in health facilities and secondly shared the progress and challenges in implementing the standards at regional level. Thirdly, a toolkit to support implementation of small and sick newborn care and enable joint learning was introduced.

This series is organized by the Network for Improving Quality of Care for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health and ENAP, with the support of UNICEF and the World Health Organization.

Thursday 1 April 2021 at 12pm GMT, 1pm WAT and 2pm CET 

Lagos State, Nigeria and PharmAccess Foundation have jointly developed a health insurance scheme that aims to improve access to quality health Maternal, Newborn and Child Health services in public and private health facilities in Lagos State, Nigeria.

This webinar presented the strategies adopted to improve access to quality Maternal, Newborn and Child Health services and highlighted the challenges and key lessons learned. The speakers presented on their collaboration to fill the gap on service provision in primary health care through a public private partnership. PharmaAccess has also introduced innovative financing mechanisms such as health insurance, and standards to assess and stimulate improvement of the quality of care delivered through SafeCare. One lesson learned as the collaboration deepened was the need to develop a regulatory framework to ensure quality improvement for MNCH and this development was in particular focus in the webinar presentation

This is the fourth webinar in a series on ‘Engaging the private sector for quality maternal, newborn and child health care’. This webinar is co-hosted by the Network for Improving Quality of Care for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health, MSD for Mothers and the Child Health Task Force.

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