NICE guidelines are applicable to England and Wales, and Northern Ireland is able to adopt them if they wish. There are a number of NICE guidelines that are relevant to the NCT’s work, listed below. See also the new online tool called NICE Pathways below.

Pregnancy

Antenatal care: routine care for the healthy pregnant woman
Pregnancy and complex social factors
Hypertension in pregnancy: the management of hypertensive disorders during pregnancy
Diabetes in pregnancy: management of diabetes and its complications from pre-conception to the postnatal period
Dietary interventions and physical activity interventions for weight management before, during and after pregnancy
Pregnancy (rhesus negative women) - routine anti-D (review)

Birth

Intrapartum care: management and delivery of care to women in labour
Induction of labour
Caesarean section

Postnatal care

Postnatal care: routine postnatal care of women and their babies

Feeding babies

Division of ankyloglossia (tongue tie) for breastfeeding
Donor breast milk banks: the operation of donor milk bank services

Public health

Antenatal and postnatal mental health: clinical management and service guidance
Maternal and child nutrition
How to stop smoking in pregnancy and following childbirth

NICE Pathways

NICE Pathways is a new online tool which provides quick and easy access, topic by topic, to a range of guidance from NICE, including quality standards, technology appraisals, clinical and public health guidance and NICE implementation tools. Simple to navigate, NICE Pathways allows you to explore in increasing detail NICE recommendations and advice. Choose from the following list of pathways relevant to NCT: diabetes in pregnancy, neonatal jaundice and postnatal care.