North West Guidelines

The North West Regional Guidelines have been created with experts from the region to provide the best evidence based practice for all our service users. We understand units have their own templates reflecting their individual institutions’ governance requirements however when transferring the guideline the authorship, issue date, content and review date must remain the same.

In addition, deviations from practice recommended in the regional guideline should be discussed with the Regional Guideline Group.

Antenatal Fetal Monitoring Antenatal Fetal Monitoring guidelines
Clinical Escalation Clinical Escalation guidelines
Fetal Growth Restriction Fetal Growth Restriction guidelines
Induction of Labour Induction of Labour guidelines
Intrapartum Fetal Monitoring Intrapartum Fetal Monitoring
Maternity Epilepsy Maternity Epilepsy guidelines
MMN Cardiac Disease in Pregnancy Guideline & Pathway MMN Cardiac Disease in Pregnancy guidelines

MMN Cardiac Disease in Pregnancy pathway

MMN Diabetes in Pregnancy

MMN Diabetes in Pregnancy Appendix 3 – Service time allocation

MMN Diabetes in Pregnancy guidelines

MMN Diabetes in Pregnancy Appendix 3 – Service time allocation

Neonatal Death Guideline and Integrated Care Pathway Neonatal Death guidelines

Neonatal Death Integrated Care Pathway

Pre Term Birth (PTB) Pre Term Birth guidelines
PRROM PPROM guidelines

NW PPROM leaflet

Reduced Fetal Movement Reduced Fetal Movement guidelines
Stillbirth Guideline and Integrated Care Pathway Stillbirth guidelines

Stillbirth Integrated Care Pathway

Termination of Pregnancy for Fetal Anomaly Termination of Pregnancy for Fetal Anomaly guidelines
Transfer of women and babies from a community setting to an acute setting SOP Transfer of women and babies from a community setting to an acute setting SOP

For any queries, please contact nwregional.maternityteam@nhs.net