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.

For all North West Neonatal Guidelines and Pathways please click here – Network Guidelines and Pathways – North West Neonatal Operational Delivery Network

Antenatal Fetal Monitoring Antenatal Fetal Monitoring guidelines
Clinical Escalation Clinical Escalation guidelines
Fetal Growth Restriction Fetal Growth Restriction guidelines
Hyponatraemia Hyponatraemia guidelines
Induction of Labour Induction of Labour Guidelines
Intrapartum Fetal Monitoring Intrapartum Fetal Monitoring
Latent Phase of Labour Latent Phase of Labour guidelines
Maternal Sepsis Guideline Maternal Sepsis guidelines
Maternity Epilepsy Guideline Maternity Epilepsy Guidelines
Management of Gestational Hypertension Management of Gestational Hypertension guidelines
Management of Postpartum Haemorrhage (PPH) Management of Postpartum Haemorrhage (PPH) 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
MMN Thyroid Disease in Pregnancy MMN Thyroid Disease in Pregnancy guidelines
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
Second Trimester Loss Guideline and Integrated Care Pathway Second Trimester Loss guidelines

Second Trimester Loss Integrated Care Pathway
Stillbirth Guideline and Integrated Care Pathway Stillbirth guidelines

Stillbirth Integrated Care Pathway
Surrogacy Surrogacy guidelines
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