Countries need to ensure continuous attention to the quality of their healthcare services, including during emergencies, contends a new Collection of articles launched today in the British Medical Journal (BMJ). The authors call for greater investment and political attention to quality issues – not just access - as a cornerstone of universal health coverage.Disruptions during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic show why health service quality must be explicitly addressed within emergency plans and response, authors state. Even when facilities were nominally open, many provided significantly reduced services that...