WHO Safe Childbirth Checklist receives Gates Grant

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WHO Patient Safety is happy to announce some good news for another project that we are working on in the field of maternal/newborn health. In partnership with WHO, Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) has secured US$ 14.1 million  from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to conduct a large randomized cluster trial of the Checklist Programme in Uttar Pradesh, India, to assess the impact of the Safe Childbirth Checklist on morbidity and mortality.
The WHO Safe Childbirth Checklist builds on the success of the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist and targets the major causes of morbidity and mortality in mothers and their newborn babies around the time of delivery. It defines a core set of practical standards to enhance patient safety and includes a behaviour change package to help staff implement the checklist.
At the programme’s core is a checklist tool that helps to ensure adherence to essential childbirth practices known to be associated with improved maternal, foetal and neonatal health. Each item is a critical action that is commonly missed but proven to reduce deaths and complications. A formal pilot study of the programme’s impact on process measures was recently conducted at a single sub-district level hospital in Southern India, with promising results. A formal report is in preparation.
This Programme represents a collaborative effort of the WHO Departments of Patient Safety, Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health, Reproductive Health and Research and Harvard School of Public Health, in addition to many other experts from around the world.
WHO anticipates a draft release of the WHO Safe Childbirth Checklist by the end of the year.
For more information go to http://www.who.int/patientsafety ... birth/en/index.html
Read the HSPH press release http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news ... t-deaths-india.html
Patient Safety Team

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We kindly invite you to participate in an online survey on the local production of the WHO-recommended alcohol-based handrub formulations (WHO formulations).
If your health-care facility produces the WHO formulations, please carefully read this email. If the WHO formulation is in use but produced elsewhere, please forward this email to the person in charge of production. If the WHO formulation(s) is neither produced nor in use at your health-care facility, please disregard this email.
WHO has identified these alcohol-based formulations for local production, especially, but not only, in settings with limited access to marketed products, to help countries and health-care facilities achieve system change and adopt alcohol-based handrubs as the gold standard for hand hygiene in health care.
The WHO Clean Care is Safer Care team is now seeking information about experiences of local production by gathering data related to production, quality control, tolerability and costs. The main objectives are to assess feasibility and costs, to identify advantages, obstacles and barriers to local production and its use. Also, we hope to find areas for improvement.
If the WHO formulation is produced locally at your health-care facility, you are our principal source of information. Therefore, your time and effort in providing accurate responses through our online survey are highly appreciated.
This survey should be completed by a professional in charge of local production of the WHO formulation. If you are not this person, please forward this message to the colleague in charge of this to complete the survey.
Participation is very simple and should take about 30-45 minutes. For a few questions, you may need to seek information before answering (e.g. production costs). To participate in the survey, please click here < http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/WHO_Alcohol_Handrubs > and follow the instructions.  Some questions are mandatory in order to move to the next questions. You may be able to choose more than one answer depending on the type of question. Please feel free to write any thoughts or learning points you would like to share with us, where applicable.
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Thank you for helping us to gather critical information about the WHO formulations local production!
We wish you all the best in your efforts to promote hand hygiene and improve patient safety.
Kind regards,
Professor Didier Pittet and the WHO Clean Care is Safer Care team
WHO Patient Safety (http://www.who.int/gpsc/en/)