Participating in netSPEAR

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Participating in netSPEAR
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Questionnaire.
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Questionnaire.
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Open access all interested

• Copies of materials produced by netSPEAR
• Clinical definitions
• Laboratory SOPs
• Checklists
• Links to appropriate authorities and reference
  centres (WHO / AFRO, WHO-CAH, etc)

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Research Groups

• Those working on S. pneumoniae or generating data
  on S. pneumoniae as a consequence of other
  research in the EAR.
• Contribute data on type of research and results
  arising, even if crude, for distribution through
  netSPEAR. (eg. specific studies on outpatient ARI
  etc).
• Possible technical assistance to routine
  surveillance (eg. quality monitoring)
• Attendance at annual network meetings and receipt
  of netSPEAR output.

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Private / Mission Hospitals

• Contribute basic workload and isolation rate data
  (all ages)
• Meningitis
• Pneumonia / bacteraemia / pleural tap
• Agree to share data through netSPEAR
• Attend annual netSPEAR meetings and receipt of
  netSPEAR output.

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Public Hospitals

• Clinical case definition framework
• Laboratory SOPs
• Equipment?
• Consumables?
• Data recording procedures.
• Connectivity
• Training.
• Monitoring and feedback

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Have you got what it takes?

• Patients?
• Staff (team involvement, not dependent on an
  individual)?
• Infrastructure?
• Equipment (free loan)?
• Consumables?
• Motivation?

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Motivation / performance.

• Removing constraints generates satisfaction
• Efforts are productive
• Information is valuable locally
• Information is valuable nationally
• netSPEAR will be judged on its success
• Needs the right partners, in some cases the
  partnership may not work out.

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Performance the end result (1)?
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Performance the end result (2)?
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Performance the end result (3)?
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Performance the end result (4)?
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Memorandum of Understanding

• netSPEAR is honest about what it can provide and
  offer.
• Hospitals critically assess their capacity and
  suggest what they can achieve.
• netSPEAR and a hospital work to agreed goals and
  measure degree to which these are achieved.
• Inability to meet goals despite all reasonable
  efforts may mean a partnership with a particular
  hospital is dissolved resources are re-located
  elsewhere.

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Getting off the ground.

• Foundation meeting
• Understanding netSPEARs aims and capacity
• Framework consensus on clinical and laboratory
  procedures.
• Working with potential sites
• Contact details and site details.
• Visit to the site to see what is practical.
• Hospital authorities
• Logistics
• Developing a tailored strategy, timeline and
  performance agreement.

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Who checks on netSPEAR?

• ADIP / GAVI funding with performance review in 18
  months and annual external auditing.
• Feedback from sites direct.
• Steering Group.
• WHO AFRO
• Ministries of Health, Hospital Management Boards
  etc.