Frimley Health clinical guidelines

Our clinical guidelines are available for you to understand our care pathways and to support you to make decisions.

Accepted abbreviations to be used in the maternity department

Acute uterine inversion (Management of)

Admission to neonatal unit

Antenatal care and booking

Antenatal and Newborn Screening

Antenatal fetal heart rate monitoring

Antepartum Haemorrhage (APH)

Babies born at the threshold of viability

Babies who are accidentally dropped in hospital

BCG Guidelines for Frimley Health

Birth choices after caesarean birth

Breastfeeding policy parents guide

Breech Presentation

Caesarean Section (including Enhanced Recovery)

Care of the infant with tongue-tie

Care of women in labour

Care for women who refuse blood products in pregnancy and the postnatal period

Care of women with obesity in pregnancy

Cervical stitch (cerclage) for preventing preterm birth in singleton pregnancy

Cord prolapse

Cup and Syringe Feeding Guideline for Neonates

Detection and follow up of fetal abnormaility

Deterioration in pregnant or recently delivered women: Recognition and use of the modified early obstetric warning system (MEOWS)

Diabetes in pregnancy

Diagnosis and management of polyhydramnios

Episiotomy

Expressing colostrum in the antenatal period

External cephalic version (ECV)

Fetal monitoring including fetal blood sampling

Female genital mutilation (FGM)

FGR in low risk women assessment

Genital Herpes in pregnancy

Guidance on managing feeding for babies who are formula fed

Guidance on weight loss in term healthy breastfed infants

Guidelines for the use of essential oils in midwifery clinical practice

Guideline on the use of Moxibustion to turn the breech baby

Handling and storage of Expressed Breast Milk (EBM) in the Maternity Department

HIV in pregnancy

Homebirth

Hypertensive disorders in pregnancy

Immediate care of newborn

Induction of labour

Infant feeding policy

Infectious disease screening

Intrapartum and postpartum bladder care

Intrauterine death (from 24 weeks of gestation)

Iron deficiency anaemia in pregnancy

Late fetal loss 16-23 week gestation

management of swabs, instruments and needles within the maternity unit

Maternal death guidance for health professionals

Maternal collapse in pregnancy and the puerperium

Maternity risk management strategy

Maternity services record keeping guideline

Mid trimester termination for fetal abnormality

Multiple pregnancy

Nausea and vomiting in pregnancy (NVP) and hyperemesis gravidarum (HG)

Neonatal Hepatitis B vaccination (antenatal and neonatal screening)

Neonatal Hypoglycaemia (management on maternity wards)

Neonatal pulse oximetry screening guideline

Newborn blood spot screening

Newborn hearing screening pathway for babies in Frimley Park and Wexham Park Hospitals

Newborn hearing screening priority 1 pathway

Newborn hearing Screening referrals for babies within FHFT: Guidance for medical staff / Referral Form

Newborn Hearing Screening Programme – Immediate Referral Pathway

Newborn hearing screening NICU/SCBU Pathway

Newborn Hearing Screening Programme - 8 month Targeted Follow-up Pathway

Newborn life support

NIPE

Obstetric Cholestasis (OC)

Operational Policy for Birth Centres

Operative vaginal delivery

Oral intake in labour and prior to caesarean section

Pre-term labour

Perinatal mental health

perineal trauma

Placenta praevia/accreta

Policy for babies sharing their mother's bed while in hospital

Policy on cleaning and storage of breast milk collection kits

Post partum Haemorrhage (PPH)

Postnatal care of the mother and baby

Postnatal visits in the community

Pregnant women with epilepsy

Prelabour rupture of membranes (PROM)

Preterm pre-labour rupture of membranes (PPROM)

Prevention of Group B Streptococcal (GBS) infection

Reduced fetal movements

Retained placenta

Sepsis in maternity

Shoulder dystocia

Sickle cell and thalassemia

Sickle cell disease in pregnancy

Skin to skin contact and initiating a close relationship for all mothers and babies in hospital

Substance misuse in pregnancy

Taking a deceased baby home

Term healthy breastfeeding infant who is reluctant to feed

The use of complementary therapy for prolonged pregnancy guideline

Thromboprophylaxis and treatment of Venous Thromboembolism in pregnancy and puerperium

Thyroid Disease in Pregnancy

Abbreviations

Transitional Care Unit (TCU) Operational Policy

Treatment of iron deficiency anaemia in pregnancy and postpartum including ferinject

Use of the pool for labour and birth

Uterine rupture (Management of)