Quality of inpatient paediatric and newborn care in district hospitals

We read with great interest the Viewpoint by Mike English and colleagues on the quality of care for paediatric and newborn patients in district hospitals, published in The Lancet Global Health.1 The authors focus, in part, on WHO recommendations for measuring paediatric quality of care and small and sick newborn quality of care in health facilities. They report that WHO has published more than 1000 non-prescriptive quality of care indicators to meet measurement needs of key actors and argue that “when presented with such a huge array of indicators, key actors could either feel overwhelmed (and avoid engaging in the quality agenda) or feel under pressure to perform seemingly impossible measurement tasks”.