Antenatal Care Guidelines
Antenatal Care Guidelines are designed to support Australian maternity services to provide high-quality, evidence-based antenatal care to healthy pregnant women.
In November 2010 all Health Ministers agreed to the National Maternity Services Plan which included the development of national evidence-based antenatal care guidelines.
What the Antenatal Care Guidelines cover
The Antenatal Care Guidelines cover a wide range of care including routine physical examinations, screening tests and social and lifestyle advice for women with an uncomplicated pregnancy.
Review of the Antenatal Care Guidelines
In 2015–16, an Expert Working Group (EWG) was established to guide a review of the Guidelines and was asked to identify priority topics and research questions for inclusion in the current review. See the selected topics here.
Why the consultation?
The evidence on selected topics has been reviewed to ensure the recommendations are consistent with the latest evidence to ensure pregnant women receive high quality, evidence based antenatal care.
This consultation process is seeking feedback on the Antenatal Care Guidelines public consultation draft. It opened on May 26th 2017 and closes 27 June 2017
You can make a submission via email to eac@health.gov.au.
Remember submissions close on 27 June 2017.
Learn more here
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