Maternity and Neonatal Clinical Guidelines

Last amended: Sept 2021 | Review date: Sept 2026 | Show history

Guideline

• Clinical Guideline: Antenatal corticosteroids (PDF, 198kB)
• Guideline Supplement: Antenatal corticosteroids (PDF, 242kB)

Flowcharts

• Flowchart: Antenatal corticosteroids (PDF, 100kB)

Education

• Presentation: Antenatal Corticosteroids (PDF, 1639kB)
• Knowledge assessment: Antenatal corticosteroids

Consumer information

• Steroids in pregnancy (PDF, 650kB)

Last amended: August 2025 | Review date: Oct 2027 | Show history

Guideline

• Clinical Guideline: Early pregnancy loss (PDF, 738kB)
• Guideline Supplement: Early pregnancy loss (PDF, 329kB)

Flowcharts

• Flowchart: Assessment of suspected early pregnancy loss (PDF, 104kB)
• Flowchart: Assessment of location and viability in suspected early pregnancy loss (PDF, 193kB)
• Flowchart: Ectopic pregnancy (PDF, 230kB)
• Flowchart: Stable intrauterine non-viable pregnancy (PDF, 105kB)

Education

• Presentation: Early pregnancy loss (PDF, 569kB)
• Knowledge assessment: Early pregnancy loss

Consumer information

• Ectopic pregnancy (PDF, 406kB)
• Pain and bleeding in pregnancy (PDF, 513kB)
• Methotrexate for ectopic pregnancy (PDF, 503kB)
• Having a miscarriage (PDF, 492kB)
• RhD negative blood type in pregnancy (PDF, 394kB)

Last amended: March 2025 | Review date: July 2027 | Show history

Guideline

• Clinical Guideline: Early onset Group B Streptococcal disease (PDF, 469kB)
• Guideline Supplement: Early onset Group B Streptococcal disease (PDF, 308kB)

Flowcharts

• Flowchart: Maternal management of EOGBSD (PDF, 59kB)
• Flowchart: Neonatal management of EOGBSD (PDF, 78kB)

Education

• Presentation: Early onset Group B Streptococcal disease (PDF, 486kB)
• Knowledge assessment: Early onset Group B Streptococcal disease

Consumer information

• Group B Streptococcus (GBS) in pregnancy (PDF, 382kB)

Last amended: April 2025 | Review date: July 2028 | Show history

Guideline (shortGUIDE)

• ShortGuide: Fetal movements (PDF, 154kB)
• ShortGuide Supplement: Fetal movements (PDF, 242kB)

Flowcharts

• Flowchart: Altered fetal movements (PDF, 74kB)

Consumer information

• Bubba's movements matter—resource for parents from "Stronger Bubba Born" website
• Your baby's movements matter—Parent information (Stillbirth CRE- also available via WINC order 1NY36778)

Additional resources

• Safer Baby Bundle and ImPROVE—eLearning guide for healthcare providers (Stillbirth CRE)

Last amended: September 2025 | Review date: July 2030 | Show history

Guideline

• Clinical Guideline: Gestational diabetes mellitus (PDF, 602kB)
• Guideline Supplement: Gestational diabetes mellitus (PDF, 339kB)

Flowcharts

• Flowchart: Screening and diagnosis (PDF, 74kB)
• Flowchart: Intrapartum management for GDM requiring insulin and/or metformin (PDF, 57kB)
• Flowchart: Postpartum care (PDF, 73kB)
• Poster: Antenatal schedule of care (PDF, 100kB)

Education

• Presentation: Gestational diabetes mellitus (PDF, 244kB)
• Knowledge assessment: Gestational diabetes mellitus
• Video presentation: Gestational diabetes mellitus update (1 hour July 2025)
• iLearn: Gestational diabetes mellitus knowledge, skills and application
• Frequently asked questions (FAQ): source ADIPS

Consumer information

Consumer information is available from the National Diabetes Support Scheme

Clinical forms (updated September 2025)

• Insulin Subcutaneous (Maternity) Order and Blood Glucose Record (PDF, 943kB)
• Insulin Intravenous Infusion (Maternity) Order / Intrapartum Blood Glucose Record (PDF, 884kB)

Last amended: September 2026 | Review date: June 2029 | Show history

Guideline

• Clinical Guideline: Publicly funded homebirth (PDF, 1059kB)
• Guideline Supplement: Publicly funded homebirth (PDF, 710kB)

Flowcharts

• Flowchart: Summary of homebirth care (PDF, 36kb)
• Home environment assessment checklist (PDF, 45kB)
• Midwife equipment checklist (PDF, 76kB)
• Woman's home preparation list (PDF, 50kB)

Education

• Presentation: Publicly funded homebirth (PDF, 808kB)
• Knowledge assessment: Publicly funded homebirth

Consumer information

• Consumer information: Publicly funded homebirth (PDF, 703kB)

Last amended: September 2026 | Review date: September 2031 | Show history

Guideline

• Clinical Guideline: Hypertension and pregnancy (PDF, 748kB)
• Guideline Supplement: Hypertension and pregnancy (PDF, 357kB)

Flowcharts

• Flowchart: Assessment and diagnosis of hypertension in pregnancy (PDF,  91kB)
• Flowchart: Management of hypertension in pregnancy (PDF, 91kB)
• Flowchart: Management of pre-eclampsia (PDF, 44kB)
• Flowchart: Management of eclampsia (PDF,75kB)

Education

• Presentation: Hypertension and pregnancy (PDF, 783kB)
• Knowledge assessment: Hypertension and pregnancy

Consumer information

• High blood pressure (hypertension) in pregnancy (PDF, 605kB)

Last amended: March 2025 | Review date: Dec 2027 | Show history

Guideline

• Guideline: Induction of labour (PDF389kB)
• Supplement: Induction of labour (PDF, 186kB)

Flowcharts

• Flowchart: Methods of induction of labour (IOL) (PDF, 119kB)
• Flowchart: Balloon catheter (PDF, 117kB)
• Flowchart: Prostaglandin E2 (Dinoprostone) (PDF, 107kB)
• Flowchart: Artificial rupture of membranes (PDF, 106kB)
• Flowchart: Oxytocin (PDF, 106kB)

Education

• Presentation: Induction of labour (PDF, 670kB)
• Presentation: Oxytocin protocol (PDF, 157kB)
• Knowledge assessment: Induction of labour

Consumer information

• Induction of labour (PDF, 532kB)
• Part 1 Induction of labour: cervical ripening (PDF, 514kB)
• Part 2 Induction of labour: breaking your waters and oxytocin (PDF, 260kB)

Last amended: September 2026 | Review date: February 2030 | Show history

Guideline

• Guideline: Intrapartum fetal surveillance (PDF, 479kB)
• Guideline Supplement: Intrapartum fetal surveillance (PDF, 313kB)

Flowcharts

• Flowchart: Mode of fetal monitoring in labour (PDF, 88kB)
• Flowchart: Abnormal fetal heart rate (PDF, 117kB)
• Reference chart: Interpretation of CTG (PDF, 63kB)

Education

• Education presentation: Intrapartum fetal surveillance (PDF, 479kB)
• Knowledge assessment: Intrapartum fetal surveillance

Consumer information

• Monitoring your baby in labour (PDF, 539kB)

Last amended: February 2023 | Review date: February 2028 | Show history

Guideline

• Clinical Guideline: Intrapartum pain management (PDF, 395kB)
• Guideline Supplement: Intrapartum pain management (PDF, 271kB)

Flowcharts

• Flowchart: Intrapartum pain management (PDF, 100kB)

Education

• Presentation: Intrapartum pain management (PDF, 586kB)
• Knowledge assessment: Intrapartum pain management

Consumer information

• Intrapartum pain management (PDF, 650kB)

Last amended: October 2026 | Review date: April 2029 | Show history

Guideline (shortGUIDE)

• Guideline: Instrumental vaginal birth (PDF, 202kB)
• Guideline Supplement: Instrumental vaginal birth (PDF, 265kB)

Education

• Education presentation: Instrumental vaginal birth (PDF, 662kB)
• Knowledge assessment: Instrumental vaginal birth

Consumer information

• Instrumental vaginal birth (PDF, 662kB)

Last amended: July 2023 | Review date: Dec 2027 | Show history

Guideline (Updated July 2023)

• Guideline: Normal birth (PDF, 542kB)
• Guideline Supplement: Normal birth (PDF, 196kB)
• See also Intrapartum pain management

Flowcharts

• Flowchart: Initial assessment (PDF, 104kB)
• Flowchart: First stage (PDF, 117kB)
• Flowchart: Second stage (PDF, 106kB)
• Flowchart: Third and fourth stages (PDF, 105kB)

Education

• Presentation: Normal birth (PDF, 869kB)
• Knowledge assessment: Normal birth

Consumer information

• Early labour (PDF, 275kB)

Additional resources

• Flowchart: Imminent birth (PDF, 350kB)
• Water immersion in labour and birth - online learning package

Last amended: July 2026 | Review date: July 2031 | Show history

Guideline (formerly obesity and pregnancy)

• Guideline: Pregnant women living in larger bodies and post bariatric surgery (PDF, 624kB)
• Supplement: Pregnant women living in larger bodies and post bariatric surgery (PDF, 314kB)

Flowcharts

• Flowchart: Pregnant women living in larger bodies and post bariatric surgery (PDF, 130kB)

Education

• Presentation: Pregnant women living in larger bodies and post bariatric surgery (PDF, 328kB)
• Knowledge assessment: Pregnant women living in larger bodies and post bariatric surgery
• Clinician education package related to healthy pregnancy and weight gain

Consumer information

• Pregnancy after bariatric surgery or with a weight above a health range (PDF, 548kB)

Last amended: April 2024 | Review date: April 2029 | Show history

Guideline (New)

• Guideline: Perinatal mental health (PDF, 535kB)
• Guideline Supplement: Perinatal mental health (PDF, 260kB)

Flowcharts

• Flowchart: Perinatal mental health (PDF, 98kB)

Education

• Presentation: Perinatal mental health (PDF, 211kB)
• Knowledge assessment: Perinatal mental health

Consumer information

• Consumer information: Mental health during pregnancy and after birth (PDF,  607kB)

Last amended: Sept 2021 | Review date: Sept 2026| Show history

Guideline

• Perinatal substance use: maternal (PDF, 384kB)
• Supplement: Perinatal substance use: maternal (PDF, 232kB)

Flowcharts and Posters

• Flowchart: Perinatal substance use management (PDF, 43kB)

Education

• Presentation: Perinatal substance use: maternal (PDF, 440kB)
• Knowledge assessment: Perinatal substance use: maternal

Consumer information

• Substance use in pregnancy (PDF,356kB)

Last amended: Dec 2023 | Review date: Dec 2028 | Show history

Guideline (Updated Dec 2023)

• Guideline: Perineal care (PDF, 535kB)
• Guideline Supplement: Perineal care (PDF, 260kB)

Flowcharts

• Flowchart: Antenatal and intrapartum perineal care (PDF, 98kB)
• Flowchart: Perineal assessment and repair (PDF, 45kB)

Education

• Presentation: Perineal care (PDF, 211kB)
• Knowledge assessment: Perineal care
• Video: Hands on or hands off? (5 min, 17MB)

Consumer information

• Your perineum and having a baby (PDF, 1593kB)
• Third and fourth degree perineal tears (PDF, 690kB)

Last amended: July 2026 | Review date: April 2029 | Show history

Guideline

• Guideline: Preconception and prenatal genetic screening (PDF, 529kB)
• Guideline Supplement: Preconception and prenatal genetic screening (PDF, 240kB)

Flowcharts

• Flowchart: Preconception reproductive genetic carrier screening (PDF, 68kB)
• Flowchart: Reproductive genetic carrier screening during pregnancy (PDF, 70kB)
• Flowchart: Chromosome condition screening during pregnancy (PDF, 73kB)

Education

• Presentation: Preconception and prenatal genetic screening (PDF, 550kB)
• Knowledge assessment: Preconception and prenatal genetic screening

Resources

• Resource list for preconception and prenatal genetic screening (PDF, 550kB)

Last amended: Dec 2023 | Review date: Dec 2028 | Show history

Guideline (shortGUIDE) (Updated Dec 2023)

• Guideline: Preterm prelabour rupture of membranes (PPROM) (PDF, 138kB)
• Supplement: Preterm prelabour rupture of membranes (PPROM) (PDF, 258kB)

Education

• Presentation: Preterm prelabour rupture of membranes (PPROM) (PDF, 345kB)
• Knowledge assessment: Preterm prelabour rupture of membranes

Consumer information

• Preterm prelabour rupture of membranes (PPROM) (PDF, 406kB)

Last amended: Dec 2023 | Review date: Dec 2028 | Show history

Guideline (shortGUIDE) (Updated Dec 2023)

• Guideline: Term prelabour rupture of membranes (PROM) (PDF, 174kB)
• Supplement: Term prelabour rupture of membranes (PROM) (PDF, 252kB)

Flowcharts

• Flowchart: Term prelabour rupture of membranes (PDF, 80kB)

Education

• Presentation: Term prelabour rupture of membranes (PROM) (PDF, 295kB)
• Knowledge assessment: Term prelabour rupture of membranes

Consumer information

• Term prelabour rupture of membranes (Term PROM) (PDF, 374kB)

Last amended: September 2026 | Review date: September  2031 | Show history

Guideline

• Guideline: Primary birthing units (PDF, 438kB)
• Supplement: Primary birthing units (PDF, 288kB)

Flowcharts

• Flowchart: Summary approach to care at a primary birthing unit (PDF, 44kB)

Last amended: September 2026 | Review date: August 2030 | Show history

Guideline (shortGUIDE)

• Guideline: Guideline: Prolonged and/or obstructed labour (PDF, 173kB)
• Supplement: Prolonged and/or obstructed labour (PDF, 286kB)

Flowcharts

• Flowchart: Prolonged and/or obstructed labour (PDF, 43kB)

Last amended: July 2026 | Review: July 2031 | Show history

Guideline

• Guideline: Preterm labour and birth (PDF, 435kB)
• Guideline Supplement: Preterm labour and birth (PDF, 318kB)

Flowcharts

• Flowchart: Assessment and management of preterm labour and birth (PDF, 45kB)

Education

• Presentation: Preterm labour and birth (PDF, 959kB)
• Knowledge assessment: Preterm labour and birth

Consumer information

• Preterm labour and birth (PDF,308kB)
• Baby needing transfer (PDF, 360kB)

Last amended: July 2026 | Review date: August 2029 | Show history

Guideline

• Guideline: Primary postpartum haemorrhage (PDF, 1229kB)
• Guideline Supplement: Primary postpartum haemorrhage (PDF, 458kB)

Flowcharts and posters

• Flowchart: Initial response to PPH (PDF, 61kB)
• Flowchart: Major haemorrhage protocol (PDF, 76kB)

Education

• Presentation: Primary postpartum haemorrhage (PDF, 598kB)
• Presentation: Oxytocin protocol (PDF, 235kB)
• Knowledge assessment: Primary postpartum haemorrhage

Consumer information

• Bleeding after birth (PDF, 439kB)
• Haemorrhage after birth (PDF, 211kB)

Last amended: April 2025 | Review date: February 2027 | Show history

Guideline (shortGUIDE)

• Guideline: Rheumatic heart disease and pregnancy (PDF, 177kB)
• Guideline Supplement: Rheumatic heart disease and pregnancy (PDF, 277kB)

Education

• Presentation: Rheumatic heart disease (PDF, 95kB)
• Knowledge assessment: Rheumatic heart disease and pregnancy

Other resources

Rheumatic Heart Disease Australia (2025)

• Acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease—Full Guideline and e-learning modules
• Acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease—Section 12 Women and Girls with Rheumatic Heart Disease

Last amended: August 2025 | Review date: March 2028 | Show history

Guideline

• ShortGUIDE: Rh D negative woman and pregnancy (PDF, 189kB)
• Guideline Supplement: Rh D negative woman and pregnancy (PDF, 258kB)

Flowcharts

• Flowchart: Rh D negative woman and pregnancy (PDF, 94kB)

Education

• Presentation: Rh D negative woman and pregnancy (PDF, 530kB)
• Knowledge assessment: Rh D negative woman and pregnancy

Consumer information

• Rh D negative woman and pregnancy (PDF, 719kB)

Additional resources

• Rh D Immunoglobulin - BloodSafe eLearning- Clinical guidance and education resource

Last amended: June 2026 | Review date: Sept 2028 | Show history

Guideline

• Guideline: Stillbirth care (PDF, 465kB)
• Guideline supplement: Stillbirth care (PDF, 306kB)

Flowcharts

• Flowchart: Summary management (PDF, 42kB)
• Flowchart: Investigations (PDF, 45kB)
• Flowchart: Reporting (PDF, 177kB)
• Flowchart: Scenario based reporting (PDF, 64kB)

Education

• Presentation: Stillbirth care (PDF, 304kB)
• Knowledge assessment: Stillbirth care

Consumer information

• Autopsy examination of a baby (PDF, 3780kB)
• Grief after your baby dies (PDF, 291kB)
• What to expect after the loss of your baby (PDF, 331kB)

Additional resources

• Stillbirth Centre for Clinical Excellence: Resources for clinicians and families

Last amended: May 2026 | Review date: December 2029 | Show history

Guideline

• Guideline: Syphilis and pregnancy (PDF, 444kB)
• Guideline Supplement: Syphilis and pregnancy (PDF, 253kB)

Flowcharts

• Flowchart: Syphilis and pregnancy approach to care (PDF, 63kB)
• Flowchart: Antenatal assessment for syphilis (PDF, 60kB)
• Flowchart: Reactive serology or positive syphilis PCR (PDF, 69kB)
• Flowchart: Baby at risk of congenital syphilis (PDF, 64kB)

Education

• Presentation: Syphilis and pregnancy (PDF, 767kB)
• Knowledge assessment: Syphilis and pregnancy

Consumer information

• Syphilis and pregnancy (PDF, 294kB)
• Syphilis in pregnancy and Jarisch-Herxheimer reaction (JHR) (PDF, 333kB)

Additional resources

• Young Deadly Free website -Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander sexual health resources (Developed by South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute)

Last amended: August 2025 | Review date: September 2029 | Show history

Guideline

• Guideline: Termination of pregnancy (PDF, 736kB)
• Guideline Supplement: Termination of pregnancy (PDF, 264kB)

Flowcharts

• Flowchart: Summary of termination of pregnancy (PDF,64kB)
• Flowchart: Medical termination at or less than 63 days of pregnancy (PDF, 201kB)
• Decision aid: No-scan medical termination at or less than 63 days of pregnancy (PDF, 43kB)

Education

• Presentation: Termination of pregnancy (PDF, 574kB)
• Knowledge assessment: Termination of pregnancy

Consumer information

• Termination of pregnancy (PDF, 560kB)

Last amended: October 2026 | Review date extended: June 2031 | Show history

Guideline

• Guideline: Traumatic injury in pregnancy (PDF, 1,016kB)
• Guideline Supplement: Traumatic injury in pregnancy (PDF, 304kB)

Flowcharts

• Flowchart: Initial assessment and management (PDF, 75kB)
• Flowchart: Cardiac arrest (PDF, 58kB)
• Flowchart: Secondary assessment and management (PDF, 79kB)

Education

• Presentation: Traumatic injury in pregnancy (PDF, 641kB)
• Knowledge assessment: Traumatic injury in pregnancy

Consumer information

• Seatbelts and pregnancy (PDF, 362kB)

Last amended: January 2026 | Review date: January 2031 | Show history

Guideline

• Guideline: Vaginal birth after caesarean (PDF, 356kB)
• Guideline Supplement: Vaginal birth after caesarean (PDF, 268kB)

Flowcharts and posters

• Flowchart: Vaginal birth after caesarean (VBAC) (PDF, 105kB)
• Flowchart: Decision-making framework after previous caesarean (PDF, 44kB)
• Checklist: Counselling for VBAC (PDF, 68kB)
• Checklist: VBAC management plan (PDF, 63kB)

Education

• Presentation: Vaginal birth after caesarean (PDF, 259kB)
• Knowledge assessment: Vaginal birth after caesarean

Consumer information

• Vaginal birth after caesarean (PDF, 538kB)

Last amended: September 2025 | Review date: September 2030 | Show history

Guideline

• Guideline: Venous thromboembolism (VTE) prophylaxis in pregnancy and the puerperium (PDF, 534kB)
• Guideline Supplement: Venous thromboembolism (VTE) prophylaxis in pregnancy and the puerperium (PDF, 377kB)

Flowcharts and posters

• Flowchart: Assessment for pregnant and postpartum women (PDF, 145kB)
• Flowchart: Thromboprophylaxis according to risk (PDF, 150kB)
• Flowchart: Thromboprophylaxis if thrombophilia (PDF, 75kB)

Education

• Presentation: Venous thromboembolism (VTE) prophylaxis in pregnancy and the puerperium (PDF, 351kB)
• Knowledge assessment: Venous thromboembolism (VTE) prophylaxis in pregnancy and the puerperium

Consumer information

• VTE in pregnancy (a blood clot in the vein) (PDF, 277kB)

Last amended: February 2026 | Review date: February 2031 | Show history

Guideline

• Guideline: Routine newborn assessment   (PDF 434 kB)
• Guideline Supplement: Routine newborn assessment (PDF 279 kB)

Flowcharts

• Routine newborn assessment  (PDF 50kB)
• Pulse oximetry screening (PDF 124 kB)
• Management during pulse oximetry screening (PDF 74 kB)

Education

• Presentation: Routine newborn assessment (PDF 695 kB)
• Knowledge assessment: Routine newborn assessment

Consumer information

• Routine newborn assessment (PDF 379 kB)
• Could it be sepsis? - a checklist for children with an infection (developed by Children's Health Queensland)

Last amended: July 2026| Review date: July 2031 | Show history

Guideline

• Clinical Guideline: Establishing breastfeeding (PDF, 433kB)
• Guideline Supplement: Establishing breastfeeding (PDF, 322kB)

Flowcharts

• Management of the healthy term baby in the first 24–48 hours (PDF, 43kB)

Education

• Presentation: Establishing breastfeeding part 1: normal pathway (PDF, 663kB)
• Presentation: Establishing breastfeeding part 2: pathway variances (PDF, 337kB)
• Knowledge assessment: Establishing breastfeeding

Consumer information

• Breastfeeding your baby (PDF, 1,045kB)
• Breastfeeding and medicines (PDF, 604kB)
• Poster: Breastfeeding cues (Term) (PDF, 2774kB)

Last amended: November 2023 | Review date: November 2028 | Show history

Guideline

• Clinical Guideline: Newborn hypoglycaemia (PDF, 686kB)
• Guideline Supplement: Newborn hypoglycaemia (PDF, 259kB)

Flowcharts

• Flowchart: Management of the well at-risk baby in first 48 hours of life (PDF, 108kB)
• Flowchart: Critical hypoglycaemia: BGL less than 1.5 mmol/L, recurrent, prolonged or symptomatic (PDF, 81kB)

Education

• Presentation: Newborn hypoglycaemia (PDF, 371kB)
• Knowledge assessment: Newborn hypoglycaemia

Consumer information

• Newborn hypoglycaemia (PDF, 474kB)

Last amended: July 2024 | Review date: Dec 2026 | Show history

Guideline

• Guideline: Hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy (PDF, 504kB)
• Supplement: Hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy (PDF, 306kB)

Flowcharts

• Flowchart: Clinical features, investigations and management (PDF, 65kB)
• Flowchart: Criteria for therapeutic hypothermia (cooling) (PDF, 69kB)
• Flowchart: Checklist for therapeutic hypothermia (cooling) (PDF, 100kB)
• Flowchart: Passive cooling (PDF, 81kB)

Education

• Presentation: Hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy (PDF, 392kB)
• Knowledge assessment: Hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy

Clinical form

• Encephalopathy severity assessment and therapeutic hypothermia criteria (PDF, 244kB)

Consumer information

• Hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy (PDF, 441kB)

Last amended: September 2025 | Review date: September 2030 | Show history

Guideline

• Guideline: Neonatal jaundice (PDF, 641kB)
• Guideline Supplement: Neonatal jaundice (PDF, 245kB)

Flowcharts

• Flowchart: Assessment of neonatal jaundice (PDF, 78kB)
• Flowchart: Guide to phototherapy (PDF, 86kB)

Nomograms for jaundice, phototherapy and exchange transfusion V2 (all updated April 2026)

• Nomogram: Baby greater than or equal to 40+0 weeks gestation (PDF, 238kB)
• Nomogram: Baby 39+0 to 39+6 weeks gestation (PDF, 192kB)
• Nomogram: Baby 38+0 to 38+6 weeks (PDF, 220kB)
• Nomogram: Baby 37+0 to 37+6 weeks gestation (PDF, 220kB)
• Nomogram: Baby 36+0 to 36+6 weeks gestation (PDF, 220kB)
• Nomogram: Baby 35+0 to 35+6 weeks gestation (PDF, 220kB)
• Nomogram: Baby 34+0 to 34+6 weeks gestation (PDF, 216kB)
• Nomogram: Baby 32+0 to 33+6 weeks gestation (PDF, 215kB)
• Nomogram: Baby 30+0 to 31+6 weeks gestation (PDF, 213kB)
• Nomogram: Baby 28+0 to 29+6 weeks gestation (PDF, 214kB)
• Nomogram: Baby less than 28+0 weeks OR less than 1000 grams (PDF, 225kB)

Education

• Presentation: Neonatal jaundice (PDF, 755kB)
• Knowledge assessment: Neonatal jaundice

Consumer information

• Jaundice in newborn babies (PDF, 484kB)

Last amended: September 2025 | Review date: September 2030 | Show history

Medicines - Neonatal

NeoMedQ - Queensland Neonatal Medicines formulary

Guideline

• Guideline: Neonatal medicines (PDF, 322kB)
• Supplement: Neonatal medicines (PDF, 223kB)

Education

• Presentation: Neonatal medicines (PDF, 464kB)
• Knowledge assessment: Neonatal medicines

Last amended: September 2026 | Review date: February 2030 | Show history

Guideline

• Guideline: Newborn bloodspot screening (PDF, 512kB)
• Guideline Supplement: Newborn bloodspot screening (PDF, 233kB)

Flowcharts

• Newborn bloodspot screening (PDF, 144 kB)
• Planning the collection of newborn bloodspot screening (PDF, 90kB)

Education

• Presentation: Newborn bloodspot screening (PDF, 474kB)
• Knowledge assessment: Newborn bloodspot screening
• Newborn Bloodspot Screening (NBS): Clinical skills development (CSDS) course (under review)

Consumer information

• Newborn bloodspot screening (PDF, 328kB)
• Newborn bloodspot screening: video for parents and carers

Further information

• Queensland newborn bloodspot screening program
• Australian Government: About newborn bloodspot screening

Last amended: March 2026 | Review date: March 2031 | Show history

Guideline

• Guideline: Palliative and end-of-life care for babies (PDF, 593kB)
• Guideline Supplement: Palliative and end-of-life care for babies (PDF, 284kB)

Flowcharts

• Flowchart: Model of care and principles of palliative and end-of-life care for babies (PDF, 82kB)
• Flowchart: End-of-life care (PDF, 44kB)
• Flowchart: After death care (PDF, 44kB)

Education

• Presentation: Palliative and end-of-life care for babies (PDF, 710kB)
• Knowledge assessment: Palliative and end-of-life care for babies

Consumer information

• Palliative and end-of-life care for babies (PDF, 713kB)

Last amended: February 2026 | Review date: February 2031 | Show history

Guideline

• Guideline: Perinatal care of the extremely preterm baby (PDF, 496kB)
• Guideline Supplement: Perinatal care of the extremely preterm baby (PDF, 286kB)

Flowcharts

• Flowchart: Antenatal care where birth imminent or indicated at or less than 24+6 weeks (PDF, 87kB)
• Flowchart: Consensus approach to resuscitation at or less than 24+6 (PDF, 173kB)

Education

• Presentation: Perinatal care of the extremely preterm baby (PDF, 830kB)
• Knowledge assessment: Perinatal care of the extremely preterm baby

Consumer information

• Babies born extremely early (PDF, 1049kB)

Last amended: July 2025 | Review date: Sept 2026 | Show history

Guideline

• Guideline: Perinatal substance use: neonatal (PDF, 512kB)
• Guideline Supplement: Perinatal substance use: neonatal (PDF, 233kB)

Flowcharts

• Management of neonatal abstinence syndrome (PDF, 229 kB)

Education

• Presentation: Perinatal substance use: neonatal (PDF, 439kB)
• Knowledge assessment: Perinatal substance use: neonatal

Consumer information

• Neonatal (newborn) abstinence syndrome (NAS) (PDF, 531kB)
• Antidepressants and your baby (PDF, 444kB)

Last amended: September 2026 | Review date: December 2029 | Show history

Guideline

• Guideline: Respiratory distress and CPAP (PDF, 498kB)
• Guideline Supplement: Respiratory distress and CPAP (PDF, 321kB)

Flowcharts

• Flowchart: Neonatal respiratory distress and CPAP ≥ 32 weeks GA (PDF, 111kB)

Education

• Presentation: Respiratory distress and CPAP (PDF, 788kB)
• Knowledge assessment: Respiratory distress and CPAP

Consumer information

• Respiratory distress and CPAP (PDF, 788kB)

Additional Resources

• Neonatal CPAP CLR online (NeoCPAP)

Last amended: Oct 2022 | Review date: Oct 2027 | Show history

Guideline

• Guideline: Neonatal resuscitation (PDF, 720kB)
• Supplement: Neonatal resuscitation (PDF, 202kB)

Flowcharts

• Flowchart: Neonatal resuscitation (PDF, 325kB)
• Flowchart: Neonatal resuscitation reference chart (PDF, 751kB)

Education

• Presentation: Neonatal resuscitation (PDF, 603kB)
• Knowledge assessment: Neonatal resuscitation
• Recorded videoconference: Neonatal resuscitation and oxygen saturation monitoring (31 Aug 2017)
• Education video: Neonatal resuscitation (Mar 2017)

Consumer information

• Newborn resuscitation (PDF, 422kB)
• Baby CPR video for parents—video for parents and carers about how to resuscitate a baby. Developed by CPR Kids.

Clinical forms

• Neonatal resuscitation equipment checklist (PDF, 230kB)
• Neonatal emergency record (SW1210) (PDF, 188kB)

Training Courses

• NeoResus Training Program—Log into iLearn for online courses:
• (PaRROT-C) Neonatal Resuscitation First Response 2023
• (PaRROT-C) Neonatal Resuscitation Advanced 2023

Last amended: September 2025 | Review date: September 2030 |

Consensus statement

• Consensus statement: Retinopathy of prematurity (PDF, 142kB)

Last amended: July 2022 | Review date: July 2027 | Show history

Guideline

• Guideline: Safer infant sleep (PDF, 728kB)
• Supplement: Safer infant sleep (PDF, 244kB)

Flowcharts and posters

• Flowchart: Summary: Safer infant sleep (PDF, 63kB)

Education

• Presentation: Safer infant sleep (PDF, 909kB)
• Knowledge assessment: Safer infant sleep
• Videoconference recording: Safer infant sleep (Sept 2022)
• Video - Protecting your baby's airways (from Raising Children Network) (2 minutes 5 seconds)

Consumer information

• Red Nose - Safe sleep and safer pregnancy
• Australian Breastfeeding Association - Breastfeeding and co-sleeping

Last amended: Dec 2022 | Review date: Dec 2027 | Show history

Guideline

• Guideline: Neonatal seizures (PDF, 525kB)
• Supplement: Neonatal seizures (PDF, 192kB)

Flowcharts

Flowchart: Assessment and management (PDF, 129kB)
• Flowchart: Investigations (PDF, 130kB)
• Flowchart: Abnormal movements in newborn babies (PDF, 167kB)

Education

• Presentation: Neonatal seizures (PDF, 166kB)
• Knowledge assessment: Neonatal seizures
• Neonatal Seizures (NEOS) online

Clinical form

• Clinical form: Neonatal seizure and neurological observation (PDF, 308kB)

Consumer information

• Seizures in newborn babies (PDF, 479kB)

Last amended: November 2023 | Review date: November 2028 | Show history

Guideline

• Guideline: Neonatal stabilisation for retrieval (PDF, 1.04 MB)
• Guideline Supplement: Neonatal stabilisation for retrieval (PDF,465kB)

Flowcharts

• Flowchart: Antenatal transfer or retrieval (PDF, 98kB)
• Flowchart: Postnatal stabilisation and retrieval (PDF, 98kB)
• Flowchart: Respiratory distress (PDF, 80kB)
• Checklist: Preparation for neonatal retrieval (PDF, 102kB)

Education

• Presentation: Neonatal stabilisation for retrieval (PDF, 640kB)
• Knowledge assessment: Neonatal stabilisation for retrieval

Consumer information

• Baby needing transfer (PDF, 430kB)

Training course

• iLearn online course: Neonatal Stabilisation (PARROT-C MC52)

Last amended: March 2026 | Review date: March 2027 | Show history

Guideline

• Guideline: Term small for gestational age baby (PDF, 713kB)
• Supplement: Term small for gestational age baby (PDF, 293kB)

Flowcharts

• Flowchart: Term small for gestational age baby: Summary management (PDF, 108kB)

Education

• Presentation: Term small for gestation age baby (PDF, 895kB)
• Knowledge assessment: Term small for gestational age baby

Consumer information

• Small for gestational age baby (PDF, 842kB)

Last amended: September 2024 | Review date: September 2029 | Show history

Guideline

• Clinical Guideline: Acute presentation of persistent pelvic pain (PDF, 155kB)
• Guideline Supplement: Acute presentation of persistent pelvic pain (PDF, 303kB)

Flowcharts

• Acute presentation of persistent pelvic pain (PDF, 44kB)

Last amended: September 2025 | Review date: September 2030 | Show history

Guideline

• Clinical Guideline: Endometriosis (PDF, 640kB)
• Guideline Supplement: Endometriosis (PDF, 322kB)

Flowcharts

• Diagnosis of endometriosis (PDF, 46kB)
• Management of endometriosis (PDF, 74kB)

Last amended: October 2026 | Review date: November 2030 | Show history

Guideline

• Clinical Guideline: Menstrual management in children and adolescents (PDF, 980kB)
• Guideline Supplement: Menstrual management in children and adolescents (PDF, 277kB)

Flowcharts

• Heavy menstrual bleeding in adolescence (PDF, 44kB)
• Management of severe heavy menstrual bleeding in adolescence (PDF, 44kB)
• Primary and secondary dysmenorrhoea in adolescence (PDF, 41kB)

Developed by: Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care  |  2024

• Heavy menstrual bleeding clinical care standard—clinical care standard, consumer fact sheet, clinician fact
  sheet, and clinical indicators

Last amended: November 2024 | Review date: November 2029 | Show history

Guideline

• Clinical Guideline: Standard care (PDF, 383kB)
• Guideline Supplement: Standard care (PDF, 269kB)

Flowcharts

• Standard care: summary flowchart (PDF, 39.8kB)

Additional resources

• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Branch - Guidelines for health professionals including effective and culturally appropriate communication, and resources for working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander patients and consumers

Last amended: February 2026 | Review date: February 2031 | Show history

Guideline

• Clinical Guideline: Maternity shared care (PDF, 246kB)
• Guideline Supplement: Maternity shared care (PDF, 271kB)

Last amended: November 2024 | Review date: November 2029 | Show history

Position statement

• Gender associated language (PDF, 82kB)

Published 2026

Guideline

• National midwifery guidelines for consultation and referral (5th ed)

Last amended: August 2020 | Review date: August 2025 | Show history

Queensland Health Informed Consent

• Guideline: Partnering with the woman who declines recommended maternity care clinical guideline, information for women and consumers, and clinical forms.

Queensland Health Informed Consent forms

• A list of obstetric consent forms

Developed by: Society of Obstetric Medicine of Australia and New Zealand (SOMANZ)  |  2019

• Management of nausea and vomiting of pregnancy and hyperemesis gravidarum

Developed by Lifeblood (Australian Red Cross)  |  2022

Guidance

• Iron optimisation in maternity
• Flowchart: Acute transfusion reactions
• Oral iron choices: A guide for maternity

Education

• Maternity blood management: Identification and management of iron deficiency and anaemia (PDF, 995kB)

Consumer information

• A guide to taking oral iron (PDF, 261kB)

Developed by: Australian Living Evidence Collaboration  |  2025

• Pregnancy Care Guidelines—Guideline and health professional summary sheets
• Postnatal Care Guidelines—Guideline and health professional summary sheets

Developed by: Society of Obstetric Medicine of Australia and New Zealand (SOMANZ)  |  2021

• Position statement on pulmonary embolism in pregnancy and post-partum

Developed by: Society of Obstetric Medicine of Australia and New Zealand (SOMANZ)  |  2023

• Position statement on investigation and management sepsis in pregnancy

Australian National Guideline (2025)

• Australian guidelines for the assessment and diagnosis of fetal alcohol spectrum disorder

Developed by: Children's Health Queensland  |  2025

• Management of newborns born to women with HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) infection

Developed by: Queensland Children's Hospital  |  2020

• Paediatric emergency clinical guidelines (QCH)

Developed by:  Australian Dental Association (ADA)  |  2020

• Ankyloglossia and oral frena consensus statement

• Guideline: Steroid induced hyperglycaemia
• Guideline Supplement: Steroid induced hyperlgycaemia