Appendix 5: Related guidance
Maternity standards
Warning
These standards are aligned with clinical guidance and pathways, national policy and key legislation and should be read alongside the following. This is not an exhaustive list:
Clinical guidelines and pathways:
- British Association of Perinatal Medicine. A framework for neonatal transitional care.
- National Bereavement Care Pathway for pregnancy and baby loss
- NICE. Antenatal care.
- NICE. Fetal monitoring in labour.
- NICE. Intrapartum care.
- NICE. Intrapartum care for women with existing medical conditions or obstetric complications and their babies.
- NICE. Postnatal Care
- Royal College of Anaesthetists. Guidelines for the provision of anaesthesia services for an obstetric population.
- Royal College of Gynaecologists. Reducing the risk of venous thromboembolism during pregnancy and the puerperium.
- Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. Maternity service standards framework.
- SIGN. Management of diabetes in pregnancy.
- SIGN. Perinatal mental health conditions.
Healthcare Improvement Scotland related sources:
- A national framework for reviewing and learning from adverse events in NHS Scotland
- Clinical governance standards
- Congenital heart disease standards
- Essentials of safe care
- Healthcare and forensic medical services standards
- Infection prevention and control standards
- Pregnancy and newborn screening standards
- Safe delivery of care in maternity units inspection programme
- Scottish approach to change: Framework
- Scottish Patient Safety Programme (SPSP)
- Sexual health standards.
Scottish Government related sources:
- Breastfeeding and infant feeding strategic framework
- Charter of patient rights and responsibilities
- Delivering together for a stronger nursing and midwifery workforce
- Delivering value based health and care: a vision for Scotland
- Early child development transformational change programme
- Health and Social Care Service Renewal Framework
- Health and Social Care Standards: my support, my life
- Maternity services policy: DL (2025) 02
- Miscarriage care in Scotland: delivery framework
- National health and wellbeing outcomes framework
- Race Equality Framework for Scotland 2016-2030
- Realistic medicine.
Other related sources:
- General Medical Council: Maternity care
- NHS Education for Scotland. Support around death
- NHS Scotland. Scottish perinatal network
- Nursing and Midwifery Council. Principles for support women’s choices in maternity care.
- Nursing and Midwifery Council. Standards for midwifes.
- Royal College of Midwifes. Strengthening midwifery leadership.
- Royal College of Midwifes. Quality, standards and safety resources
- Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. RCOG guidance
- UNICEF UK: The baby friendly initiative.