Useful Resources

SPCNMOA Resources

Categories: Sustainability and Strategic Partners; Leadership and Governance; Education; Regulation; GEDSI; Midwifery and Maternal and Child Care; Meeting Reports and Administration; Archives

Sustainability and Strategic Partners

• Principles of Partnership document
• State of the World's Nursing Report 2025
• ICN Renewing the Definitions of Nurse and Nursing 2025
• Global Strategic Directions for Nursing and Midwifery 2021-2025 (extended to 2030)
• ICN Report from WHA 78
• State of the World's Nursing Report 2020
• Global Strategic Directions for Strengthening Nursing and Midwifery 2016 -2021
• APPG Triple Impact: How developing nursing will improve health, promote gender equality, and support economic growth
• WHO Eradication of Poverty
• 2SER Podcast: Challenges for healthcare in the Pacific Islands

Universal Health Coverage

• 2017 Final Resolution; HR for Health and Implementation of the Outcomes of the UN's HLC on Health Employment and Economic Growth
• Health Workforce 2030 Brochure
• WHO's Framework for Action: Strengthening Health System to Improve Health
• Atun et al. 2014. Health-system reform and universal health coverage in Latin America
• Commentary in the Lancet: Horton. 2018. UHC - One Promise and Two Misunderstandings

Emerging Priorities

• 40th Anniversary Alma Ata
• Alma at 40: A Milestone in the Evolution of the Right to Health and an Enduring Legacy for Human Rights in Global Health
• How Bill Gates thinks about climate change, innovation, and the SDG
• UN NCD Resolution 18 Sept, 2018
• WHO Western Pacific Regional Framework for Action for Disaster Risk Management for Health
• WHO Non Communicable Diseases
• World Bank NCD Roadmap

• Pacific Leadership Program 2025 Brief
• Publication - Rumsey et al., 2025. Enablers and inhibitors of nursing and midwifery leadership in Pacific Island collectivist cultures
• Pacific Leadership Program 2024 Brief
• Pacific Leadership Program 2022 Brief
• Pacific Leadership Program 2015 Case Studies
• Pacific Leadership Program 2014 Case Studies
• Pacific Leadership Program 2013 Case Studies
• Pacific Leadership Program 2012 Case Studies
• Pacific Leadership Program 2011 Case Studies
• Pacific Leadership Program 2009 Case Studies
• Roles and Responsibilities of Chief Nursing and Midwifery Officers
• Van de Pas et al. 2016. Global Health Governance in the SDGs
• Aiken et al. 2016. Nursing skill mix in European hospitals: cross-sectional study of the association with mortality, patient ratings, and quality of care.

Education

• Strengthening Nursing Education in Vanuatu (VIINE) Stage 3
• Strengthening Nursing Education in Vanuate (VIINE) Stage 1 and 2
• Strengthening Health Workforce Education in PNG (SHWE) Stage 2
• Strengthening Health Workforce Education in PNG (SHWE)
• Regional Quality Improvement Program
• Scoping Study: Improving the quality of nursing and midwifery education and regulation in Pacific Island countries and areas
• Papua New Guinea National Framework for Midwifery Education - Implementation Plan 2014
• Standard ICM Competency-Based List for Basic Skill Training in Midwifery Schools 2012

Regulation

• SPCNMOA Regulation Webinar Series
  • Webinar 0: General Overview of Regulation Framework
  • Webinar 1: Accreditation
  • Webinar 2: Standards for Practice
  • Webinar 3: Complaints and Safety of the Public
  • Webinar 4: Registration
• SPCNMOA Program - working together to strengthen health workforce in the Pacific
• Regional Quality Improvement Program
• Scoping Study: Improving the quality of nursing and midwifery education and regulation in Pacific Island countries and areas
• Regulatory Strengthening, Convergence and Cooperation for Medicines and the Health Workforce
• Health Workforce Regulation WPRO 2016
• World Health Organisation and Australia forge new strategic partnership

GEDSI

• APPG Triple Impact: How developing nursing will improve health, promote gender equality, and support economic growth

Midwifery and Maternal and Child Care

• WHO recommendations on maternal health 2nd edition 2025
• Strategic objectives for the development and implementation of maternal, newborn, and child health quality of care programmes 2025
• Implementation guidance on transitioning to midwifery models of care 2025
• ANMC National Competency Standards for the Midwife 
• ICM: Essential Competencies for Basic Midwifery Practice 2010
• Homer, Turkmani, Rumsey. 2017. The State of midwifery in small island Pacific nations ELSEVIER
• Samoan Competencies for the Midwife
• Maternal and Child Health Initiative in PNG 2012-2015

Meeting Reports

Meeting Reports

• 2004 Cook Islands Meeting Report
• 2006 Samoa Meeting Report
• 2008 Sydney Meeting Report
• 2010 New Zealand Meeting Report
• 2012 Melbourne Meeting Report
• 2014 Tonga Meeting Report
• 2016 Solomon Islands Honiara Meeting Report
• 2016 Solomon Islands Honiara Meeting Brief

Pacific Health Ministers Meetings

• 2023 15th Pacific Health Ministers Meeting
• 2022 14th Pacific Health Ministers Meeting
• 2019 13th Pacific Health Ministers Meeting
• 2017 12th Pacific Health Ministers Meeting
• 2015 11th Pacific Health Ministers Meeting
• 2013 Submission to the 10th Pacific Health Ministers Meeting
• 2013 Submission for Pacific Plan Review
• 2015 Eleventh Pacific Health Ministers Meeting
  

SPCNMOA Resolutions 2008

• Resolution 1
• Resolution 2

Archives

• Pacific Health Ministers Meeting Archive
• AMR News Letter Edition 5
• Dr Takeshi Kasai nominated as next WHO Regional Director for the Western Pacific
• South Centre News on AMR
• TB Update