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Antenatal careRoutine care for the healthy pregnant woman

Clinical practicealgorithmsOctober 2003

Developed by the National Collaborating Centre for Womens and Childrens Health

National Institute forClinical Excellence

NHS

Information on the full guideline produced by the National Collaborating Centre for Womens andChildrens Health, from which the NICE guideline has been prepared, is given in Section 5 of the NICEguideline.

Clinical Guideline 6

Antenatal careRoutine care for the healthy pregnant woman

Issue date: October 2003

The algorithm on this poster forms part of the NICE guideline on antenatal care (see above).Copies of the NICE guideline can be obtained free of charge from the NICE website(www.nice.org.uk) and from the NHS Response Line (phone 0870 1555 455 and quote referencenumber N0309). A version for people who want to understand what NICE has told the NHS,called Routine Antenatal Care for Healthy Pregnant Women, is also available from the ResponseLine; quote reference number N0310 for an English only version and N0311 for an English andWelsh version.

This guidance is written in the following context:This guidance represents the view of the Institute, which was arrived at after carefulconsideration of the evidence available. Health professionals are expected to take it fully intoaccount when exercising their clinical judgment. The guidance does not, however, override theindividual responsibility of health professionals to make decisions appropriate to thecircumstances of the individual patient, in consultation with the patient and/or guardian or carer.

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