Part of a series on ‘Delivering quality essential maternal, newborn and child health services during COVID-19’, co-hosted by the Network for Improving Quality of Care for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health and the QoC subgroup of the Child Health Task Force.

Thursday 3 September, 2020 at 11 am GMT, 1 pm CEST, 2 pm EAT

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How does COVID-19 affect the ability of health workers to maintain quality maternal, newborn and child health services, and how have they adapted the way they deliver care? This webinar will share the perspectives of health workers striving to deliver essential, quality MNCH services during the pandemic.

The speakers will share the findings of the recent ‘Voices from the frontline’ survey[1] documenting experiences of frontline maternal and newborn healthcare providers during COVID19. It looks particularly at health workers’ access on guidance during the pandemic, their level of stress, and their concerns about the impact of rapidly changing care practices on health outcomes.

A representative from the Malawi Ministry of Health will share the challenges that midwives are facing and the solutions they have come up with to provide quality care during COVID-19. The experience of Nepal will also be shared.

The presentations will be followed by an ‘Ask the experts’ session.  

 Speakers:

• Dr. Lenka Benova, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium
• Dr. Andrew Likaka, Director of Quality Management and Digital Health Department, Ministry of Health and Population, Malawi
• Dr. Abha Shrestha, consultant obs/gyn at Dulikhel hospital, and professor at Kathmandu University, Nepal

This is the fifth webinar in a series on ‘Delivering quality essential maternal, newborn and child health services during COVID-19’. Quality of care experts will share global guidance and country experiences around quality of care for maternal, newborn and child health in the context of COVID-19.

The series is co-hosted by the Network for Improving Quality of Care for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health and the QoC subgroup of the Child Health Task Force, with the support of UNICEF and the World Health Organization.  

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[1] Voices from the frontline: findings from a thematic analysis of a rapid online global survey of maternal and newborn health professionals facing the COVID-19 pandemic.

Photo: ©UNICEF/UNI341101/Vinay Panjwani

Join the launch webinar of the Every Newborn 2025 targets and milestones on Thursday, September 3 2020, 14.00-16.00 (Geneva time)

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The 2025 targets and milestones will be launched by Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General and Henrietta Fore, Executive Director, UNICEF. 

Global actions now will determine the course of maternal and newborn health for the next decade and the health and lives of future generations. Essential health services, including high-quality maternal and newborn health care must be sustained and further strengthened to withstand shocks like COVID-19, in order to protect the lives and health of women and children and progress towards our global commitments to women and children.

This launch webinar, organized by the Every Newborn Partnership, will be a practical discussion on how to sustain and improve access to high-quality maternal and newborn health services and essential health services to protect the lives and health of women and children. Increased coverage of care for four targets by 2025 is essential to reach the Sustainable Development Goals, and the attainment of the Global Strategy for Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health, and universal health coverage for all. 

 The focus of this webinar is as follows:

• Present new Every Newborn Coverage Targets to 2025 and corresponding Milestones by 2025
• Hear from Ministries of Health and partners on what is needed to support countries to achieve the 9 critical milestones and 4 Coverage targets

The Nationwide Quality of Care Network – India (NQOCN), with the support of WHO South East Asia Regional Office, is launching India’s Community of Practice (COP) for Point of Care Quality Improvement (POCQI) on Saturday 22 August 2020 at 12.30 pm IST

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The Community of Practice is designed to facilitate interactive learning between various stakeholders committed to improve quality of care, at a time COVID-19 hampers the organization of quality improvement workshops and onsite mentoring visits.

This initiative is being supported by BMJ,  the International Society for Quality in Healthcare (ISQua) and  the Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences. 

Learn more and see the launch programme: www.nqocncop.org

Wednesday 12 August, 2020 at 8 am GMT,  10 am Geneva CEST, 11 am EAT, 1.30 pm IST - duration: 1 hour

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Each year, an estimated 2.5 million newborns die during the first 28 days of life; approximately 80% of these are low-birth-weight, and two thirds are born prematurely. A further estimated 1 million small and sick newborns survive with a long-term disability[1].

This webinar will present WHO’s eight standards of care that aim to guide countries in caring for this specific, vulnerable population. The standards define what is expected and required to deliver effective, high-quality health services for small and sick newborns in health facilities. The standards call for a transformation of the care for small and sick newborns: beyond guidance on clinical care they focus on how that care should be delivered to ensure the developmental and emotional well-being of the newborn. They address issues such as family-centered care, effective communication and managing pain and emotional distress in sick and small newborns.

This webinar will present how the standards can provide a resource for policy-makers, health care professionals, health service planners, programme managers, regulators and professional bodies or technical partners involved in care, to help plan, deliver and ensure the quality of health services delivery. Speakers will give an overview of the  standards’ quality statements, which lists the priorities for improving quality of care for newborns, and their related quality measures, including criteria for assessing, measuring and monitoring the quality of care . Country perspectives on adapting and adopting standards of care will also be presented.

There will be time for Q & A.

Presenters:

• Dr. Ornella Lincetto, Senior Medical Officer for Newborn Health, World Health Organization, Geneva.
• Dr. Carolyn Maclennan, Paediatrician, World Health Organization Consultant.
• Dr. Nuhu Yaqub Jr., Technical Officer MNCH Quality Management, World Health Organization Regional Office, Africa.

Facilitator:

Dr. Gagan Gupta, Health Specialist (Maternal and Newborn Health), UNICEF Health Section, New York

The standards of care for small and sick newborns are part of a set of standards for quality of care over the life course. See also WHO’s Standards for improving quality of maternal and newborn care in health facilities published in 2016 and the 2018 Standards for improving quality of for children and young adolescents in health facilities.

This webinar is the last in a series of 13 sessions on ‘Transforming care for small and sick newborns’, that presented the findings of the Survive and Thrive: transforming care for every small and sick newborn report, and shared experiences from on what it takes to improve care for every newborn, including the most vulnerable ones. Access the summaries, recordings and presentations of the series. See the recordings only

[1]  UNICEF/WHO 2019. Survive and Thrive: Transforming care for every small and sick newborn

Take part in the second round of the global survey of maternal and newborn health providers during COVID-19 understand the range of actions taken to ensure care continues to be provided  during this pandemic. 

The survey is available  in 11 languages.

This research is conducted by a group of MNH researchers and led by the Institute of Tropical Medicine (ITM) in Antwerp, Belgium.

In the first round of the survey, the responses of nearly 2,000 health providers have contributed to a better understanding of how maternal and newborn care is affected by the pandemic. The findings are summarised here.

Photo: Binta Djal— hold her yet unamed newborn baby at the maternity ward of the Simao Mendes hospital in Bissau, Guinea Bissau, in January 2020. UNICEF/UNI285081/Prinsloo.

Thursday 23 July, 2020 at 11 am GMT, 1 pm CEST, 2 pm EAT

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Oxygen therapy remains largely unavailable for severely ill newborns and children admitted to hospitals, and is a critical gap for the management of patients with COVID-19. This webinar will describe the oxygen gap that prevents newborns and children with hypoxaemia from accessing critical care, and opportunities to strengthen oxygen systems to improve the quality of care.

Speakers will share practical solutions from Nigeria on strengthening oxygen systems to achieve broad access, and improve the quality of care for newborn and child health.  A representative of the Rwanda Ministry of Heath will present the country’s strategy to establish oxygen systems as part of health systems strengthening and resilience building and how it has impacted newborn and child health quality of care and supported COVID-19 preparedness. The speakers will discuss how to turn investments in oxygen systems made during the COVID-19 response into lasting improvement in the quality of care for maternal, newborn and child health.

The presentations will be followed by an ‘Ask the experts’ session. 

Speakers:

• Dr. Hamish Graham, Consultant Paediatrician, Melbourne Children’s Global Health
• Prof. Adegoke Falade, Consultant Paediatrician, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Nigeria
• M. Donatien Baiyanama, Health Facilities Specialist, Clinical and Public Health Services General Directorate in the Ministry of Health, Rwanda
• Ms. Annick Ishimwe, Medical Equipment Engineer, Rwanda Biomedical Center/Ministry of Health, Rwanda

Facilitators:

• Dr. Anne Detjen, Health Specialist, iCCM/IMCI, UNICEF
• Dr. Pavani Ram, Senior Medical Advisor for Child Health, USAID

This is the fourth webinar in a series on ‘Delivering quality essential maternal, newborn and child health services during COVID-19’. Quality of care experts will share global guidance and country experiences around quality of care for maternal, newborn and child health in the context of COVID-19.

The series is co-hosted by the Network for Improving Quality of Care for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health and the QoC subgroup of the Child Health Task Force, with the support of UNICEF and the World Health Organization.  

See the whole series and register: http://www.qualityofcarenetwork.org/webinar-series2

Photo: UNICEF/UNI337820/Bashir Ahmed Sujan