In our final installment of posts that highlights the new features of the iDSI website, Dr. Ryan Li introduces the Resources section – focusing on the principles for developing clinical quality standards in Low and Middle Income Countries (LMICs). I remember very vividly two of the hospitals I visited in Vietnam, during my first field trip as a global …
Building capacity to use evidence for UHC in Vietnam
With thanks to Waranya Rattanavipapong, HITAP Better policymaking for universal health coverage (UHC) requires different actors in the health system to have the right capacities to generate and use evidence. Led by HITAP, in Vietnam iDSI has been supporting the Health Strategy and Policy Institute (HSPI), a technical unit under the Ministry of Health, to build capacity for generating policy-relevant …
Musings and Mopeds in Vietnam – Part 2
This is a guest post by Maggie Helliwell, retired English general practitioner and former Vice Chair of NICE. See also Part 1. We visited five different types of primary care health clinics, one in central Hanoi and four in the provinces and villages. They were immaculately clean, reasonably well-appointed facilities – with good basic equipment including simple laboratory machines, ultrasound, …
Musings and Mopeds in Vietnam – Part 1
This is a guest post by Maggie Helliwell, retired English general practitioner and former Vice Chair of NICE One morning early in 2016, an email popped into my inbox from NICE International: Would I like to go to Vietnam in March to help the Ministry of Health develop their primary care strategy? At first I had to say no as …
Workshop to develop quality standards for antimicrobial resistance in Hanoi
In December 2015 Dr Francoise Cluzeau, NICE International travelled to Hanoi for the second in a series of workshops for the UK/Vietnam Partner Driven Collaboration entitled “Towards an evidence based National Action Plan on Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) in Vietnam”. This collaboration aims to create an evidence informed methodology and governed working processes to develop and implement policies and guidelines for controlling AMR in Vietnam. It …
NICE International hosts Vietnamese Delegation to explore HTA in Vietnam
On 19th November 2015, NICE International hosted a 21-strong Vietnamese delegation headed by Professor Phạm Lê Tuấn, Vice Minister of Health, Vietnam. The delegation comprised a number of heads of departments, directors and senior officials forming a broad spectrum of Vietnamese health policy makers, and they sought to increase their understanding of Health Technology Assessment (HTA) methods, its potential for …
Vietnam delegation visits to NICE
Vietnamese Ministry visit NICE July 2014 NICE International was pleased to host a delegation from the Vietnamese central and provincial governments as part of the EU-funded Health Sector Capacity Support Project. The delegation consisted of members of the Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Planning and Investment, and representatives from the health services departments in the Bac Ninh, Bac Giang, and …
NICE International at the high level Groundwork meeting in Hanoi
The Groundwork project, led my Meteos, has taken place over the past 12 months with the aim of discussing and working through some of the challenges (technical and political) of setting up and running processes for evidence-informed decision-making in health systems within low- and middle-income countries. The group has met twice bringing together participants including; senior individuals and advisors from Colombia, …
HTA Development in Vietnam
Health Benefits package in Vietnam April 2015 NICE International coordinated two events in Hanoi on health benefits package design in partnership with the Health Strategy and Policy Institute and the Vietnamese Health Economics Association. A health benefits package is the range of technologies and services that are available at a free or subsidised rate to the insured population, and the …
Quality Standard for the Hospital Management of Acute Stroke in Vietnam
Developing a Quality Standard for the Hospital Management of Acute Stroke in Vietnam July 2014 View pictures of the launch of the quality standard On 16-17 July, the Ministry of Health Vietnam launched the Quality Standards for the Hospital Management of Acute Stroke (“the Stroke QS”). This is the first set of evidence-informed quality standards developed locally in Vietnam, with technical …