Accessed online January 2018
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                Introduces the GATHER approach to counseling, a patient-centered approach that improves patient satisfaction
Has a chapter offering basic biomedical information on cancer, as requested by health workers
Includes information about management of side effects
Encourages health workers to take care o...f themselves and acknowledges the stressful nature of their work.
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                                                                Saving Lives Through Safe Surgery (SaLTS)
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                National Safe Surgery Strategic PLAN Saving Lives Through Safe Surgery (SaLTS) Strategic Plan 2016–2020
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                Saving Lives Through Safe Surgery (SaLTS)
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                This is an update of a seven-year TB and Leprosy national strategic plan (TBL-NSP), which extends from 2013 to 2020. The update focuses on the plan covering from 2017-20 and is based on the 2017 external mid-term programme review key findings and recommendations; the global and national End TB strat...e-gies and targets; stakeholders consultation and recent revision of the national TB guidelines.
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                                                                Saving Lives Through Safe Surgery (SaLTS)
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                The  Federal  Ministry  of  Health  (FMOH)  has  been  coordinating  sector  wide  reforms  that  aim  to improve equity and quality of health services. It is widely known that; the sector is growing in line the overall  growth  and  transformation  plan  of  the  country  and  the  sector  is  bein...g  guided  by  the  health sector  transformation  plan  (HSTP).  As  part  of  these  efforts,  to  achieve  the  targets  set,  the  sector identified information revolution as one of the transformational agendas. In the meantime, Appropriate and  timely  use  of  health  and  health-related  information  is  an  essential  element  in  the  process  of transforming the health sector.
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                                                                The  Ethiopian  Hospital  Services  Transformation  Guidelines  (EHSTG)  build  on  and  expand  the  Ethiopian  Hospital  Reform  Implementation  Guidelines  (EHRIG)  and  are  consistent  with  the  Health  Sector  Transformation  Plan  (HSTP). The EHSTG, which is consistent with the national focu...s on quality improvement in health care, contains a common set of guidelines to help hospital Chief Executive Officers(CEOs), managers, and clinicians (care providers) in steering  the  consistent  implementation  of  these  transformational  systems  and processes in hospitals throughout the country. The EHSTG focused on selected management and clinical functions, including new individual service specific chapters for Emergency Medical, Outpatient and Inpatient Services, Nursing  and  Midwifery,  Maternal,  Neonatal  and  Child  Health  and  Teaching  Hospitals’  Management.  These  guidelines  also  incorporate  recent  lessons  from the operationalization of the EHRIG, as well as, new national initiatives such as the Guidelines for the Management of Federal Hospitals in Ethiopia, Hospital Development Army (HDA), Clean and Safe Hospital (CASH), and Auditable Pharmaceutical Transaction and Service (APTS). 
II10 Pharmacy ChapterIt is expected that the guidelines will continuously evolve as new evidence emerges  regarding  improved  hospital  care  and  practices  that  are  better  tailored to needs and circumstances of different tiers of public hospitals. We are grateful to all partners that have participated in the production of these guidelines. Special thanks go to our colleagues at the Clinton Health Access Initiative for their substantial contributions and support throughout the  development  of  these  guidelines  as  well  as  their  dedicated  efforts  in  support of our health reform efforts in so many other capacities
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