Women’s and reproductive health guidelines

This webpage covers all NICE’s guidelines on women’s and reproductive health. The table presents the guidelines alphabetically. Updates planned or in progress are listed for each guideline, and there are links to the individual update pages for more information.

Guidelines

Guideline	Updates planned and in progress
Abortion care	Anti-D prophylaxis
Antenatal care	-
Caesarean birth	-
Ectopic pregnancy and miscarriage: diagnosis and initial management	diagnosis and initial management
Endometriosis: diagnosis and management
Fertility problems: assessment and treatment	Update in progress: Update 1 and 2 (expected publication TBC)
Fetal monitoring in labour	-
Heavy menstrual bleeding: assessment and management	-
Hypertension in pregnancy: diagnosis and management	-
Inducing labour	-
Intrapartum care	maternal hyponatremia Water birth - second stage of labour
Intrapartum care for women with existing medical conditions or obstetric complications and their babies
Maternal and child nutrition: nutrition and weight management in pregnancy, and nutrition in children up to 5 years
Menopause: diagnosis and management
Polycystic ovary syndrome: diagnosis and management
Postnatal care	-
Pregnancy and complex social factors: a model for service provision for pregnant women with complex social factors	-
Preterm labour and birth	-
Twin and triplet pregnancy	-

Methods

Guideline recommendations are developed using the methods and processes in developing NICE guidelines: the manual and the interim principles for methods and processes for supporting digital living guideline recommendations.

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