The NHS Maternity Survey started in 2007 and the 2021 survey will be the eighth carried out to date. This is the first year the Maternity Survey has been offered in both paper and online methodologies and this has contributed to the survey achieving a response rate of 52% (up from 37% in 2019). The survey was sent to all mothers who gave birth in February 2021.[1] This means that respondents experienced the full maternity pathway from antenatal care to postnatal care, under pandemic conditions.

Back in 2017, the EU enshrined “timely access to affordable, preventive and curative health care of good quality” in the European Pillar of Social Rights. Since then, the COVID-19 pandemic has brought home quite how vital quality healthcare is to our individual and collective wellbeing. Universal public healthcare is not a luxury, it is a cornerstone of our social market economies in which everyone has the right to live a long and healthy life.

Posyandu merupakan salah satu bentuk Upaya Kesehatan Berbasis Masyarakat (UKBM) yang dikelola dan diselenggarakan dari, oleh, untuk dan bersama masyarakat dalam penyelenggaraan pembangunan kesehatan guna memberdayakan masyarakat dan memberikan kemudahan kepada masyarakat dalam memperoleh pelayanan kesehatan dasar/sosial dasar untuk mempercepat penurunan Angka Kematian Ibu dan Angka Kematian Bayi.

Pemerintah akan mulai mengimplementasikan perubahan kelas layanan peserta mandiri BPJS Kesehatan dari kelas 1-3 menjadi kelas standar secara bertahap mulai tahun ini. Kelas standar akan mulai berlaku di rumah sakit di bawah Kementerian Kesehatan pada tahun ini dan diimplementasikan secara penuh di seluruh rumah sakit rujukan BPJS Kesehatan pada 2024.