This brief builds on the work by the informal WHO
Inter-regional Taskforce for hospital planning and
management to review the literature, gather country
experiences and build a consensus for a renewed
vision for hospitals and identification of key policy
levers and interventions at the organizational level to
drive hospitals transformation. Those are presented in
more details in WHO position paper “People-centred
hospitals towards universal health coverage” and its
accompanying advocacy brochure “Promise and legacy:
The vital role of hospitals in achieving universal health
coverage”. Promising practices presented in boxes
throughout the brief illustrate only few of the extremely
rich interventions implemented globally in a wide variety
of contexts.
