Women’s and reproductive health guidelines

In development GID-HUB10001

This webpage covers all NICE’s guidelines on women’s and reproductive health. The table presents the guidelines alphabetically. Updates planned or in progress and areas we’re actively monitoring are listed for each guideline, and there are links to the individual update pages for more information.

Guidelines

Guideline	Updates planned and in progress	Key topic areas we’re actively monitoring
Abortion care	Anti-D prophylaxis	-
Antenatal care	-	Common problems: nausea and vomiting Common problems: unexplained vaginal bleeding after 13 weeks
Caesarean birth	-	Planning mode of birth Planned caesarean birth: placenta praevia and placenta accreta spectrum Procedural aspects of caesarean birth: decision-to-birth interval for unplanned and emergency caesarean birth Procedural aspects of caesarean birth: surgical techniques
Ectopic pregnancy and miscarriage: diagnosis and initial management	-	Early pregnancy assessment services Management of miscarriage: threatened miscarriage
Endometriosis: diagnosis and management		Surgical management Diagnosing endometriosis
Fertility problems: assessment and treatment	Update in progress: Major update (expected publication August 2025)	To be confirmed when the major update in progress is complete
Fetal monitoring in labour	-	Fetal blood sampling
Heavy menstrual bleeding: assessment and management	-	Management of heavy menstrual bleeding
Hypertension in pregnancy: diagnosis and management	-	Chronic hypertension: pre-pregnancy advice Chronic hypertension: treatment during pregnancy Gestational hypertension: assessment and treatment Pre-eclampsia: treatment
Inducing labour	-	Induction in specific circumstances: pregnancy longer than 41 weeks Induction in specific circumstances: suspected fetal macrosomia Pharmacological and mechanical methods for inducing labour Methods not recommended for induction of labour
Intrapartum care	maternal hyponatremia Intrapartum care - uterotonics for postpartum haemorrhage	-
Intrapartum care for women with existing medical conditions or obstetric complications and their babies		Breech presenting in labour
Menopause: diagnosis and management		Premature ovarian insufficiency: management Identification and management
Polycystic ovary syndrome: diagnosis and management
Postnatal care	-	Organisation and delivery: transfer to community care Postnatal care of the baby: bed sharing Postnatal care of the baby: promoting emotional attachment
Pregnancy and complex social factors: a model for service provision for pregnant women with complex social factors	-	Antenatal care: general Antenatal care: domestic abuse
Preterm labour and birth	-	Prophylactic vaginal progesterone and prophylactic cervical cerclage Emergency cervical cerclage Timing of cord clamping
Twin and triplet pregnancy	-	Fetal monitoring during labour

Methods

Areas for active monitoring are identified by our maintaining and updating our guideline portfolio process including validation with stakeholders.

Active monitoring is ongoing surveillance in key topic areas. It involves one or more of:

monitoring studies in progress by systematically searching for ongoing studies and assessing the results when published
monitoring newly published studies by continuous searching of newly published evidence
system monitoring by systematically collating intelligence from the health and care system and working with partners to identify areas of change.

Guideline recommendations are developed using the methods and processes in developing NICE guidelines: the manual and the interim principles for methods and processes for supporting digital living guideline recommendations.

If you have new information, intelligence or evidence relevant to any of the key topic areas listed above, please contact prioritisation@nice.org.uk.