Intrapartum care

You can now review and comment on this draft guideline.

The consultation closes on 6 June 2023 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
• Evidence reviews:
• Evidence review A – Impact of BMI on choice of place of birth
• Evidence review B – Initial assessment of women reporting prelabour rupture of membranes
• Evidence review C – Sterile water injections
• Evidence review D – Remifentanil patient-controlled analgesia
• Evidence review E – Programmed intermittent epidural bolus
• Evidence review F – Use of oxytocin in the first or second stage of labour
• Evidence review G – Position for birth
• Evidence review H – Pushing techniques
• Evidence review I – Interventions to reduce perineal trauma
• Evidence review J – Prophylactic antibiotics for birth with forceps or ventouse
• Evidence review K – Active and physiological management of the third stage
• Evidence review L – Route of administration of oxytocin in the third stage of labour
• Evidence review M – Uterotonics for the prevention of postpartum haemorrhage
• Evidence review N – Position of the baby during cord clamping
• Evidence review O – Pharmacological management of postpartum haemorrhage
• Supplementary information:
• Methods
• Algorithm
• Glossary and abbreviations
• Editorial changes
• Evidence tables for review M: Uterotonics for the prevention of postpartum haemorrhage
• GRADE tables for review M: Uterotonics for the prevention of postpartum haemorrhage
• Developer team
• Economic models
• Equality impact assessment

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

• Committee membership list
• Developing NICE guidelines: how to get involved
• Scope (for information only, not for commenting on)

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: IPCupdate@nice.org.uk

Deadline: 6 June 2023 at 5pm

5. Economic models

The developer has produced economic models to support the guideline on Intrapartum care for healthy women and babies (update). To receive an executable version of these models, please submit a request to IPCupdate@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 models by email. The deadline for returning your comments is the same as for the guideline consultation: 6 June 2023 at 5pm.