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Obstetricians and

National Collaborating Centre for
Women’s and Children’s Health

Other NICE guidelines produced by the National Collaborating Centre for
Women’s and Children’s Health include:
• Antenatal care: routine care for the healthy pregnant woman
• Fertility: assessment and treatment for people with fertility problems When to suspect child maltreatment
• Caesarean section
• Type 1 diabetes: diagnosis and management of type 1 diabetes in children
and young people
• Long-acting reversible contraception: the effective and appropriate use of
long-acting reversible contraception
• Urinary incontinence: the management of urinary incontinence in women
• Heavy menstrual bleeding
• Feverish illness in children: assessment and initial management in children
When to suspect child maltreatment
younger than 5 years
• Urinary tract infection in children: diagnosis, treatment and long-term
Neonatal jaundice
management
• Intrapartum care: care of healthy women and their babies during childbirth Neonatal jaundice
• Atopic eczema in children: management of atopic eczema in children from
birth up to the age of 12 years
• Surgical management of otitis media with effusion in children
• Diabetes in pregnancy: management of diabetes and its commplications from
preconception to the postnatal period
• Induction of labour
• Surgical site infection: prevention and treatment of surgical site infection
• Diarrhoea and vomiting caused by gastroenteritis: diagnosis, assessment and
management in children younger than 5 years

Guidelines in production include:
• Hypertensive disorders in pregnancy
• Neonatal jaundice
• Constipation in children
• Bacterial meningitis and meningococcal septicaemia in children
• Pregnant women with complex social factors
• Autism in children and adolescents
• Multiple pregnancy

Enquiries regarding the above guidelines can be addressed to:
National Collaborating Centre for Women’s and Children’s Health
King’s Court
Fourth Floor
2–16 Goodge Street
London
W1T 2QA
enquiries@ncc-wch.org.uk

A version of this guideline for parents and carers is available from the NICE website
(www.nice.org.uk/CG089) or from NICE publications on 0845 003 7783; quote
reference number N1901. Clinical Guideline

Published by the Royal July 2009 Clinical Guideline
College of Obstetricians and
Gynaecologists. For a complete May 2010
list of RCOG Press titles, visit: RCOG
Press
ww.rcogbookshop.com RCOG Press 2009 Funded to produce guidelines for the NHS by NICE