Development of the Guideline Implementation Tools for the Omnibus Health Guideline for the Adult and Elderly Life Stages (Албания - Тендер #40988910)

BACKGROUND

The Republic Act 11223 or the Universal Health Care Act (UHC) aims to ensure that all Filipinos have equitable access to quality and affordable health care, good, and services, as well as protection against financial risk. In order to fulfill this mandate, The Department of Health, as the national technical authority on health, seeks to implement an integrated approach for the provision of health care services across all life stages. As the primary office in charge of setting clinical standards, the Disease Prevention and Control Bureau (DPCB) developed the Omnibus Health Guidelines for all life stages (Child, Adolescent and Reproductive Age, Adult, Elderly), which synthesize and integrate existing policies and establish standards across the entire spectrum of clinical care, including promotive, preventive, curative, rehabilitative and palliative health services.

The Standards of Care enumerated in the Omnibus Health Guidelines are expected to be adopted by various target users such as, but not limited to primary care providers (PCPs), local government units (LGUs), and managers of various settings (e.g. workplaces, schools). Cognizant of the need to create tools that will facilitate the uptake and implementation of the Omnibus Health Guidelines, Guideline Implementation Tools for the various target users shall be developed. GITs are categorized as 1. Patient Support Tools, Clinician Support Tools, Implementation Support Tool and Evaluation Support Tool. These implementation tools shall consist of algorithms, checklist, tables, illustrations and other relevant materials. The standardized process for the development of GITs is currently being established. This standardized process shall be used as the fundamental guide for the development of guideline implementation tools for all life stages.

The development of the guideline implementation tools for the Omnibus Health Guidelines must be subject to a series of consultations with key stakeholders such as medical societies, patient group representatives, key offices from the DOH, and international development partners. Given the gravity of this undertaking, it must be written and supervised by a team of health systems experts with wide experience in crafting such tools for primary care.