1 Quality of Care Network Secretariat, Department of Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health and Ageing, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.
2 Department of Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health and Ageing, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.
3 National Centre for Coordination for Early Warning and Response Mechanisms, Ministry of Health, Accra, Ghana.
4 Federal Ministry of Health, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
5 Department of Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health, Ministry of Health and Sanitation, Freetown, Sierra Leone.
6 Quality Management Directorate, Ministry of Health, Malawi.
7 London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
Olive Cocoman and colleagues argue that national leadership for quality of care requires working in a co-leadership model such that quality and programme units have equal standing and clearly defined individual roles and responsibilities