Update information
August 2021: This guideline updates and replaces NICE guideline CG62 (published March 2008).
Minor changes since publication
March 2025: We updated links to relevant technology appraisal guidance in the section on examinations and investigations.
December 2024: We added a link to the NICE guideline on end of life care for adults. See the surveillance report for further details.
October 2023: We updated the link to the NICE guideline on intrapartum care.
August 2023: In our recommendations on managing nausea and vomiting we linked to information on hyperemesis gravidarum in the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists' guideline on the management of nausea and vomiting of pregnancy and hyperemesis gravidarum.
December 2021: We have added links to our guideline on pelvic floor dysfunction (recommendation 1.3.12).
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