Neonatal infection: antibiotics for prevention and treatment

You can now review and comment on this draft guideline.

The consultation closes on Tuesday 5 January 2021 at 5pm

How to comment

1. Register your organisation or comment as an individual

If you’re commenting for an organisation, your organisation needs to be registered as a stakeholder.

Not eligible? Contact the stakeholder organisation that most closely represents your interests and pass your comments to them.

We can accept comments from individuals. These will be considered, but you won’t get a formal response and they won’t be posted on the NICE website. Wherever possible we encourage you to submit your comments through a registered stakeholder organisation.

2. Read the consultation documents

Documents to comment on:

• Draft guideline – just the recommendations and their rationale
• Evidence reviews
  • Evidence review A: information and support
  • Evidence review B: Intrapartum antibiotics
  • Evidence review C: Timing of delivery
  • Evidence review D: Maternal and neonatal risk factors
  • Evidence review E: Risk factors for late-onset
  • Evidence review F: Intravascular catheters
  • Evidence review G: Investigations before starting treatment
  • Evidence review H: Antibiotics
  • Evidence review I: Antifungals
• Economic model (see below)
• Methods

If you want to review the economic model, please see 5. Economic models below and fill in the confidentiality form.

Other information about the consultation

• Equality impact assessment
• Committee membership list and DOI register
• Developing NICE guidelines: how to get involved

3. Add your comments

• You must use this comments form.
• You must declare any links with, or funding from, the tobacco industry

If you share similar views with another organisation, send a joint response.

Make sure you consider:

• The areas that will have the biggest impact on practice and be challenging to implement
• How to help users overcome challenges

Developing NICE guidelines: how to get involved suggests some other areas to comment on.

4. Email the form to us

Email: neonatalinfection@nice.org.uk

Deadline: 5pm, Tuesday 5 January 2021

5. Economic model

The developer has produced an economic model to support the guideline on Neonatal infection: antibiotics for prevention and treatment. To receive an executable version of this model, please submit a request to neonatalinfection@nice.org.uk with a signed copy of the confidentiality acknowledgement and undertaking form.

We will then send you a link to an executable version of the economic model by email. The deadline for returning your comments is the same as for the guideline consultation: 5pm, Tuesday 5 January 2021.