Sentence examples for maternity guidance from inspiring English sources

Maternity Matters [the last government's maternity guidance document] came out in 2007, but it contained some of the same things that were in the government's big maternity policy document in 1992.

'Maternity Matters' guidance for service commissioning in England released in 2007 emphasised the Government's commitment to providing choice guarantees for women regarding type of antenatal care and place of birth and also highlighted the need for future maternity services to address disproportionately higher rates of maternal morbidity among disadvantaged women.

Minimum standards for maternity care (including guidance on performing ultrasound scans) are recommended by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence NICEE) and include at least ten antenatal check-ups for women expecting their first baby [ 1].

40 Although it described a comprehensive approach to delivering improved maternity care, the guidance did not provide any specific recommendations as to how to improve services for women from socially disadvantaged backgrounds.

At the hospital maternity ward non-systematized guidance is given to all laboring women on non-pharmacological techniques of pain relief.

The failure to translate evidence-based guidance into local maternity unit guidelines represents a missed opportunity to address variation in care and to potentially reduce stillbirths in this high-risk group.

In contrast to national evidence based guidance the quality of maternity unit guidelines for RFM is variable and frequently of low quality.

Careful consideration could therefore be given to the involvement of members of the public in the formulation of guidance and reviews of maternity incidents.

The watchdog had already issued guidance for acute care and maternity wards – guidance which has been cited by many hospitals as a reason for drafting in extra staff, often from agencies.

Overall, local guidance for the review of maternity incidents was mostly of good or high quality.

In the present study, women who received guidance on breastfeeding at the maternity hospital presented a 20% lower risk of abandoning EBF during the first 6 months.