Safe midwifery staffing for maternity settings guideline: Economic analysis and modelling report consultation

Consultation dates: 22 January - 4 February 2015, 12pm

We are now consulting registered stakeholders on the economic analysis and modelling report for safe midwifery staffing for maternity settings guideline and would like to hear from you.

How to comment

1. Register as a stakeholder

Your organisation needs to be registered as a stakeholder.

You can still register if you haven't done this already. If you do not belong to an organisation that can register as a stakeholder, we recommend that you contact the registered stakeholder organisation that most closely represents your interests and pass your comments to them.

2. Read the consultation document

Document to comment on:

• Economic analysis and modelling report

Other information about the consultation:

• Developing NICE guidelines: how to get involved

3. Make your comments and submit them

Submitting comments

If your organisation and another registered stakeholder have similar views on the report, we encourage you to send a joint response from 1 organisation. The other organisations should then respond separately, endorsing the comments.

Please submit comments to SafeStaffingSH@nice.org.uk by 12pm on 4 February 2015 at the latest.

• Economic analysis and modelling report: comments form

Checklist for submitting comments:

• Use the comment form and submit it as a Word document (not a PDF).
• Combine all comments from your organisation into 1 response. We cannot accept more than 1 response from each organisation.
• Underline and highlight any confidential information or other material that you do not wish to be made public.
• Do not include medical information about yourself or another person from which you or the person could be identified.
• For copyright reasons, comment forms do not include attachments such as research articles, letters or leaflets (for copyright reasons). We return comments forms that have attachments without reading them. The stakeholder may resubmit the form without attachments, but it must be received by the deadline.

What happens next

• The Committee will consider all the comments. Comments from registered stakeholders, and responses to the comments will be published alongside the final guideline on the NICE website.
• If you submit comments directly (not through a stakeholder organisation), the Committee will still consider your comments, but will not respond to them or publish them on the website.
• Comments about implementation will be used to help develop implementation support for the final guideline. We will not publish responses to individual comments.
• We cannot consider any comments that arrive after the deadline, or are not on the comments form.

Progress of this guideline topic so far.

Note: We reserve the right to summarise and edit comments received during consultations, or not to publish them at all, if we consider the comments are too long, or publication would be unlawful or otherwise inappropriate.

Comments received during our consultations are published in the interests of openness and transparency, and to promote understanding of how the guideline is developed. The comments are published as a record of the comments we received, and are not endorsed by NICE, its officers or advisory Committees.