Name of the national project:
Support the training of health professionals in promoting breastfeeding and relationship and conducting clinical audits in the area of Baby friendly hospital initiative (BFHI)
ITMS21+ code: 401405A036
Programme: Programme Slovakia - SK - ERDF/CF/FST/ESF+
Caller: Mediating Authority of the Slovak Republic - Ministry of Health
Call code: PSK-MZ-003-2024-NP-ESF+
Accepted amount of non-repayable project financial contribution: EUR 1 876 542,59
Period of implementation of the project: 10/2024 – 12/2029
Eligible users: institutional/ambullar health care facilities (health care provider whose employees are health professionals to gynecologists and obstetricians, neonatologists and pediatricians, nurses and midwives)
Priority: Active inclusion and accessible services
Specific objective: ESO4.11 - Improving equal and timely access to quality, sustainable and affordable services, including those promoting access to housing and individualised care, including healthcare; modernising social protection systems, including promoting access to social protection, with a particular focus on children and disadvantaged groups; improving accessibility, including for persons with disabilities, the effectiveness and resilience of health care systems and long-term care services (ESF+)
Brief description of the project:
The main objective of the project is to support the further training of health workers in gynology-birth and neonatological workplaces in the field of compliance with BFHI principles, including supporting the conduct of clinical audits, contributes to the improvement of the availability of training of health workers in support of breastfeeding and relationship of accredited study program of continuous training of a professional lactation consultant, implements the tool of systematic review and evaluation of the quality of health care provided to mothers and their children before, during and after delivery, helps to motivate health facilities providing health care to mothers and newborns to follow the BFHI standard procedure and obtain the BFHI certificate, creates a space for proactive cooperation between MZ SR and specific providers of institutional health care and their healthcare professionals, professional companies, persons qualified to conduct clinical audit and educational entities.
Basic objectives of the project:
- Support further training of health professionals in support of breastfeeding and relationship
- conducting clinical audits on the application of BFHI principles in medical establishments/in practice
- Improve the quality of health care provided to pregnant women, mothers and children
- verification of non-discriminatory access to the parent
- Get information on BFHI's compliance in practice
The objectives of the national project will be pursued through activities such as:
Main project activity: Support the training of health workers in support of breastfeeding and relationship ties, conducting clinical audits in the area of Baby friendly hospital initiative (BFHI)
Activity No. 1Accredited continuing learning study programme
Activity No. 2 Conduct of clinical audits
Expected benefits of the project:
- the health care facility of the gynaecological and reproductive departments and the neonatological workplaces, the children's clinic/department and the general childcare clinic and the adolescents will have a proportion of the staff who have completed an accredited study programme of continuous education, and the preparation of a professional lactation consultant.
- all gynaecological-born units and neonatological workplaces in the Slovak Republic will undergo a clinical audit according to the BFHI Standard Procedure,
- compliance in practice with the BFHI Standard Procedure;
- contribution of the Ministry of Health to national strategies, national programmes and action plans, Convention on the Rights of the Child, People with Disabilities, Protection against Discrimination, etc.,
- an increase in the number of newborns exclusively breast-fed and newborns who were attached to the breast within 1 hour after birth;
- Support for obstetrics in compliance with the International Code of Marketing for Breast Milk Compensation
- Support for breastfeeding in children of sick and premature birth and support for bonding in mothers after the Cesarean section
- improvement of public health in Slovakia.
The project is co-financed by the European Union under the Programme Slovakia
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