Tuesday 10 March 2026 | 11:00-12:00 This session will share work from two very different contexts (Kenya, the Netherlands and England) to help understand the fundamental health system enablers that allow improvement to flourish. The research from Kenya studies maternity and neonatal care, to understand behaviours and requisites that enable staff to improve quality and safety. We will also learn from a range of case studies, from the Netherlands and England, that help the role and use of data in enabling the development of learning health systems.<\/p> \u00a0<\/p> Part 1 – Improvement founders on the rocks of understaffing: the reality of enhancing neonatal care in Kenya<\/strong><\/span><\/p> This presentation demonstrates how the promise of scaling up access to technologies supported by skills training, improved data, local quality improvement and external supervision and mentorship to enhance the provision of intermediate level neonatal care in Kenyan hospitals is undermined by persistent, poor staffing. The results of multi-disciplinary research conducted over a 2 year period that made direct measurements of nurses delivery of bedside care to over 500 sick newborns, that used ethnographic methods to observe, shadow and interview staff and mothers and that collected extensive routine data will be presented. The results provide detailed information on quality and safety of neonatal care and the experiences of care from the perspective of staff and mothers. They help explain why even well-resourced programmatic interventions may have limited success and why delivering quality at scale requires a systems approach not a simple QI approach.<\/span><\/p> \u00a0<\/p> After this session, participants will be able to:<\/span><\/p> Mike English<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0 University of Oxford and KEMRI-Wellcome Programme; UK<\/span><\/p> \u00a0<\/p> Part 2 – Using data to drive improvement in healthcare: moving from pilots to learning health systems<\/strong><\/span><\/p> A Learning Health System (LHS) is an organization or network in which science, informatics, incentives and culture are aligned for continuous improvement and innovations. In this workshop we discuss the added value of using data and the development of LHS.<\/span><\/p> During the third part of the session, the audience will be provided with thought-provoking statements to stimulate group discussions and reflect on (conditions for) the use of data and develop LHSs in their own health care contexts.<\/span><\/p> \u00a0<\/p> After this session, participants will be able to:<\/span><\/p> \u00a0<\/p> Brent Opmeer<\/a><\/strong> Vilans; Netherlands<\/span> Tuesday 10 March 2026 | 11:00-12:00Stream: ScienceSession format: WorkshopChair: Pierre Barker Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI); USAThis session will share work from two very different contexts (Kenya, the Netherlands and England) to help understand the fundamental health system enablers that allow improvement to flourish. The research from Kenya studies maternity and neonatal care, to understand […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/internationalforum.bmj.com\/oslo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/internationalforum.bmj.com\/oslo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/internationalforum.bmj.com\/oslo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/internationalforum.bmj.com\/oslo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/internationalforum.bmj.com\/oslo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/internationalforum.bmj.com\/oslo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/internationalforum.bmj.com\/oslo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/internationalforum.bmj.com\/oslo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/internationalforum.bmj.com\/oslo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Stream: Science
Session format: Workshop
Chair: <\/span><\/strong><\/em>Pierre Barker <\/strong><\/a>Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI); USA
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The LHS framework will be introduced that is useful for understanding, designing, developing and evaluating learning health system. We will discuss several ways in which learning from data contribute to improved, personalised, value-based and sustainable health care.<\/span><\/p>
This more conceptual and theoretical framework will subsequently be illustrated by three different case studies of (developing) LHSs at different levels (micro, meso and macro).
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Bellis van den Berg<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0 Vilans; Netherlands<\/span>
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