Current work

Recent updates


April 2024
  • Published: Following review - Instrumental vaginal birth guideline supplement, consumer information, education and knowledge assessment
  • Published: First publication - Preconception and prenatal genetic screening guideline, supplement, education presentation and knowledge assessment
  • Amendment: Rh D negative women in pregnancy
  • Published: First publication - neonatal medicine monograph hydralizine hydrochloride (NeoMedQ)
  • Published: First publication - Perinatal mental health guideline, supplement, flowchart, education, knowledge assessment
March 2024
  • Published: First publication neonatal medicine monograph isradipine (NeoMedQ)
  • Published: First publication neonatal medicine monograph spironolactone (NeoMedQ)
  • Amendment: Vitamin D neonatal medicine monograph (NeoMedQ)
  • Amendment: Phenobarbital neonatal medicine monograph (NeoMedQ)
  • Amendment: Phosphate neonatal medicine monograph (NeoMedQ)
February 2024
  • Published Working party list for Newborn bloodspot screening
  • Published: Parent Information "Third or fourth degree tears" to accompany the clinical guideline Perineal care
  • Published: Parent Information "Your perineum and having a baby" to accompany the clinical guideline Perineal care
  • Published: Scope for Termination of pregnancy guideline review
  • Published: Scope for Primary postpartum haemorrhage (PPH) guideline review
  • Published: Scope for Newborn bloodspot screening new guideline development
January 2024
  • Published: Working party list for Instrumental vaginal birth
  • Amendment: Albumin neonatal medicine monograph (NeoMedQ)
  • Amendment: Morphine sulfate neonatal medicine monograph (NeoMedQ)
  • Amendment: Benzyl penicillin neonatal medicine monograph (NeoMedQ)
December 2023
  • Published: First publication of neonatal medicine monograph (NeoMedQ) indometacin
  • Published: Perineal care - guideline, supplement, education
  • Published: Prelabour rupture of membranes (PROM) guideline, supplement, education, consumer information
  • Published: Preterm prelabour rupture of membranes (PPROM) guideline, supplement, education, consumer information
  • Published scope for instrumental birth
November 2023
  • Amendment: NeoMedQ glucose gel
  • Published: Newborn hypoglycaemia - guideline, supplement, education, consumer information
  • Published: Neonatal stabilisation for retrieval - guideline, supplement, education, consumer information
  • Published: Consumer engagement strategy
  • Amendment: Stillbirth care guideline and supplement
October 2023
  • Amendment: Termination of pregnancy guideline, supplement, flowchart and education presentation
  • Published: Working party list for PPROM and PROM clinical guidelines
September 2023
  • Published: Stillbirth care guideline, supplement, education, consumer information
  • Published: Working party list for Preconception and prenatal genetic screening guideline
  • Published: Link to education package on water immersion
  • Published: Link to QCH paediatric emergency guidelines
  • Review date extended: Syphilis in pregnancy, PPH, Instrumental vaginal birth, Perineal care
  • Published: neonatal medicine monographs microlax, miconazole, nystatin, glycerol suppository
August 2023
  • Amendment: Syphilis in pregnancy - guideline, supplement, flowchart and education presentation
July 2023
  • Published: Fetal movements - guideline, supplement and flowchart
  • Published: Syphilis and pregnancy scope
  • Published: Perinatal mental health working party list
  • Published: Perineal care peer review panel
  • Published: Steering committee list and Terms of reference 2023 to 2025
June 2023
  • Published: NeoMedQ (neonatal monograph) - dexmedetomidine, sulfamethoxaole, heparin sodium, omeprazole (new)
  • Published: Newborn hypoglycaemia scope
  • Published: Preconception and prenatal genetic screening scope
  • Amendments: Establishing breastfeeding guideline and supplement
  • Amendments: Induction of labour guideline, supplement and flowchart (oxytocin)
April 2023
  • Published: Clinical form: Encephalopathy assessment and therapeutic hypothermia criteria
  • Published: Clinical form: Neonatal seizures and neurological observations
  • Published: Fetal movements working party list
  • Published: Rh D negative women and pregnancy, parent information and education (new)
March 2023
  • Amendment: Neonatal medicine benzylpenicillin
  • Amendment: Neonatal medicine clonidine
  • Amendment: Term SGA baby
  • Published: Working party list for review of Stillbirth care
  • Amendment: Retinopathy of prematurity (RoP) consensus statement
  • Published: Rh D negative women and pregnancy guideline and supplement
  • Published: Perineal care scope
  • Published: Fetal movements scope
  • Published: Perinatal mental health scope
  • Published: Breastfeeding and medicines parent information (new)
  • Published: Induction of labour x 3 parent information(2 new)
February 2023
  • Review date extended to Feb 2024 for guidelines Neonatal stabilisation for retrieval and Stillbirth care
  • Amendments to NeoMedQ (neonatal medicine monographs) adrenaline, caffeine citrate
  • Amendments to GDM education presentation
  • Published: NeoMedQ (neonatal medicine monographs) levothyroxine, polaxamer, rasburicase, palivizum (new)
  • Published: Intrapartum pain management guideline, supplement, flowchart, education presentation, , knowledge assessment, consumer information
Januray 2023
  • Published: NeoMedQ (neonatal medicine monographs), ganciclovir, valganciclovir, vancomycin, fluconazole (new)
December 2022
  • Amendments to Termination of pregnancy guideline, supplement, flowcharts, education presentation
  • Amendments to Preterm labour and birth guideline, supplement, flowchart, education presentation
  • Published: Induction of labour - guideline, supplement, flowcharts, education, knowledge assessment
  • Published: Neonatal jaundice - guideline, supplement, flowchart, education, knowledge assessment, consumer information
  • Published: Neonatal seizures - guideline, supplement, flowchart, education, knowledge assessment, consumer information
  • Published: Normal birth - guideline, supplement, flowcharts, education, knowledge assessment, consumer information
  • Amendments to Preterm labour and birth guideline, supplement, flowchart, education presentation
November 2022
  • Published: Standard care
  • Published: Early pregnancy loss consumer information x4 (ectopic pregnancy, methotrexate for ectopic pregnancy, pain and bleeding in early pregnancy, after a miscarriage)
  • Published: Stillbirth scope
  • Amendment: Neonatal resuscitation checklist
  • Amendment: Termination of pregnancy- guideline, supplement, flowchart, education
  • Amendment: Hypoxic ischaemnic encephalopathy (HIE) guideline, supplement
October 2022
  • Amendment: Syphilis in pregnancy- guideline, supplement, flowchart, education, knowledge assessment
  • Published: Early pregnancy loss - guideline, supplement, flowcharts, education, knowledge assessment
  • Published: Neonatal resuscitation - guideline, supplement, flowcharts, equipment checklist, education, knowledge assessment and consumer information
September 2022
  • Published: NeoMedQ (neonatal monograph) - clonazepam, lidocaine, phenytoin, pyridoxine (new)
  • Published:Safer infant sleep presentation recording from 8th Sept 2022
  • Published: Adult inpatient steroid induced hyperglycaemia - guideline and supplement
August 2022
  • Published: Early onset Group B Streptococcal disease - guideline, supplement, flowcharts, amendments
July 2022
  • Published: Early onset Group B Streptococcal disease - guideline, supplement, flowcharts, education, knowledge assessment and consumer information
  • Published: Safer infant sleep - guideline, supplement, flowchart, education, knowledge assessment
  • Published: NeoMedQ (neonatal monograph) adrenaline amendment
  • Published: NeoMedQ (neonatal monograph) argipressin, phosphate, magnesium sulfate, clonidine, azthromycin (new)
  • Published: Neonatal seizures - scope
  • Published: Intrapartum pain management - scope
June 2022
  • Published: Hypoglycaemia newborn amendments
May 2022
  • Published: Early pregnancy loss - scope
  • Published: Induction of labour - scope
  • Published: Neonatal resuscitation - scope
  • Published: RhD negative women and pregnancy - scope
  • Published: Gestational diabetes mellitus: guideline, supplement, flowchart - amendment
  • Review date extended for Early pregnancy loss, Neonatal seizures, Induction of labour
April 2022
  • Published: Nomograms V2 update to statewide forms
  • Published: Maternity care for mothers and babies during COVID-19 pandemic guideline and supplement - update
  • Published: Preterm prelabour rupture of membranes shortGuide, supplement and education - amendment
  • Published: NeoMedQ (neonatal monograph) vitamin D - amendment
March 2022
  • Published: Hypoglycaemia - newborn guideline amendment
  • Published: Term small for gestational age newborn baby guideline, supplement, education and knowledge assessment (full review)
  • Published: Maternity care for women and babies during COVID-19 pandemic guideline and supplement amendments
  • Published: Termination of pregnancy guideline, supplement, and education amendments
  • Published: Rheumatic heart disease and pregnancy shortGUIDE, supplement, education and knowledge assessment (new)
  • Published: NeoMedQ (neonatal monographs) adrenaline (epinephrine), metronidazole, micafungin, omnipaque (new)
February 2022
  • Published: Maternity care for women and babies during COVID-19 pandemic guideline update
  • Published: Early onset Group B streptococcal disease - scope
January 2022
  • Published: Maternity care for women and babies during COVID-19 pandemic guideline, supplement, education and consumer information amendments
  • Published: NeoMedQ (neonatal monographs) pentavite, vitalipid, vitamin E, vitamin D, prednisolone (new)
  • Published: QCG consumer representative role (peer review)
December 2021
  • Published: COVID-19 and pregnancy consumer information (updated)
  • Published: Hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy guideline, supplement, education presentation, consumer information and knowledge assessment (peer review)
  • Published: Maternity shared care operational framework (full review)
November 2021
  • Published: Newborn assessment (routine) guideline, supplement, education presentation, consumer information and knowledge assessment (full review)
  • Published: Establishing breastfeeding guideline, supplement, education presentation, consumer information and knowledge assessment (full review)
  • Published: Maternity care for mothers and babies during COVID-19 pandemic (V7) guideline and supplement
  • Published: Scope for SGA review
  • Published: NeoMedQ adenosine
  • Published: NeoMedQ noradrenaline (norepinephrine)
October 2021
  • Published: Respiratory distress and CPAP amendment
September 2021
  • Published: Perinatal substance use: maternal guideline, supplement, education presentation, consumer information and knowledge assessment (full review)
  • Published: Perinatal substance use: neonatal guideline, supplement, education presentation, consumer information and knowledge assessment (full review)
  • Published: COVID-19 vaccination education presentation (new)
  • Published: Partial update - Maternity care for mothers and babies during COVID-19 pandemic guideline
  • Published: Antenatal corticosteroids guideline, supplement, education presentation, consumer information and knowledge assessment (new)
  • Published: Obesity and pregnancy (including post bariatric surgery) guideline, supplement, education presentation, consumer information and knowledge assessment (full review)
August 2021
  • Published scope for review of Shared care: operational framework
  • Republished: All consumer information (excluding those under review) to include QR code
  • Republished: NeoMedQ (neonatal monographs);updates to aciclovir, amoxicillin, ampicillin, benzylpenicillin, cefepime, cefazolin, cefotaxime, ceftriaxone, flucloxacillin gentamicin, sodium chloride 23.4%,
  • Published NeoMedQ (neonatal monograph) phenobarbital
July 2021
  • Published: Gestational diabetes mellitus amendment
  • Published: Syphilis in pregnancy amendments
  • Published: Primary postpartum haemorrhage amendment
  • Published: NeoMedQ (neonatal monographs) amlodipine, ceftriaxone, dexamethasone, levetiracetam, sodium chloride 23.4%, topiramate
June 2021
  • Published: Hypoglycaemia- newborn amendments
May 2021
  • Published Scope for Self-management of diabetes for hospitalised inpatients
  • Published Scope for Establishing breastfeeding
  • Published: NeoMedQ (neonatal monographs) sucrose, hepatitis B vaccine, hepatitis B immunoglobulin, phytomenadione
  • Published Nomograms (6) for neonatal jaundice, phototherapy and exchange transfusion by gestation and birth weight
April 2021
  • Published: Scope for Routine newborn assessment
  • Published: Scope for Perinatal substance use (maternal and neonatal)
  • Published: Scope for Rheumatic heart disease and pregnancy
March 2021
  • Published: Maternity care for mothers and babies during COVID-19 pandemic
  • Published: Hypoglycaemia- newborn amendments
February 2021
  • Published: Gestational diabetes mellitus guideline, supplement, education presentation and knowledge assessment (following peer review)
  • Published: Retinopathy of prematurity consensus statement
  • Published: Hypertension and pregnancy guideline, supplement, flowcharts, consumer information, education presentation, knowledge assessment
  • Published: NeoMedQ (neonatal monographs) fentanyl, alprostadil, dantrolene, insulin, glucose and insulin infusion, enoxaparin, ERYthromycin
December 2020
  • Published: NeoMedQ (neonatal monograph) update to glucagon, and benzyl penicillin
  • Published: Syphilis in pregnancy amendment
  • Published: HIE scope
  • Published: VBAC consumer information, knowledge assessment and education presentation
October 2020
  • Published: NeoMedQ (neonatal monographs) cefazolin, neostigmine, vecuronium
  • Published: Obesity and pregnancy (including post bariatric surgery) scope
  • Published: Neonatal resuscitation equipment checklist
September 2020
  • Published: Maternity care for mothers and babies during COVID-19 pandemic (reviewed)
  • Published: VBAC (full review)
  • Published: Perinatal care of the extremely preterm baby (peer review)
  • Published: Fetal movements amendment
  • Published: PPH amendment
  • Published: Instrumental vaginal birth amendment
  • Published: Perineal care amendment
  • Published: NeoMedQ Furosemide (frusemide)
August 2020
  • Published: Termination of pregnancy amendment
July 2020
  • Published: CPAP Clinical Learning Resources (CLR, education presentation, response booklet, list of readings)
  • Published neonatal monographs: albumin, paracetamol, ibuprofen, cefepime,
June 2020
  • Published: Preterm labour and birth (guideline, supplement, clinician education)
May 2020
  • Published: Respiratory distress and CPAP (guideline, supplement, clinician education)
  • NeoMedQ: Neonatal medicines - Added monographs survanta, curosurf, infloran
April 2020
  • Published: Maternity care for mother's and babies during COVID-19 pandemic (previously titled Perinatal care if suspected or confirmed COVID-19 in pregnancy)
  • Update: Early onset Group B Streptococcal disease
March 2020
  • Published: Perinatal care if suspected or confirmed COVID-19 in pregnancy (guideline, supplement, operational framework and consumer information)
  • Update: Gestational diabetes mellitus for screening during COVID-19 pandemic (FAQ and Screening and diagnosis flowchart)
February 2020
  • Venous thromboembolism (VTE) prophylaxis in pregnancy and the puerperium (full review of guideline, supplement, clinician education and consumer information)
  • Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (scope published)
  • Gestational diabetes mellitus (scope published)
  • Perinatal care at extremely low gestation (previously Perinatal care at the threshold of viability) (scope published)
  • NeoMedQ: Neonatal medicines - Added monographs ferrous sulphate, epoetin alfa, morphine sulfate, morphine hydrochloride, midazolam
December 2019
November 2019
October 2019
September 2019
  • Newborn hypoglycaemia - Updated guideline, supplement, education, and flowcharts following full review of evidence
  • NeoMedQ: Neonatal Medicines- Added monographs about Diazoxide, Glucagon, Glucose gel, HydrOCHLOROTHIAZIDE, Hydrocortisone, and Octreotide.
  • Neonatal Medicines - New guideline, supplement, and clinician education
  • Trauma in pregnancy - Updated guideline, supplement, education and parent information following review of evidence.
June 2019

Guidelines in development

Review: Termination of pregnancy
Review: Neonatal medicines
  • Stage: Draft
Review: Primary postpartum haemorrhage
Review: Syphilis in pregnancy
New: Perinatal mental health
  • Stage: Published
New: Prenatal screening - in collaboration with Down Syndrome Queensland
  • Stage: Published
Review: Instrumental vaginal birth
  • Stage: Published
New: Publicly funded homebirth
New: Newborn bloodspot screening
Review: Trauma in pregnancy
  • Stage: Draft
Stages of guideline development:
  • Draft: First draft being developed with Clinical Lead
  • Consultation: Out for consultation with the Working Party and/or statewide clinicians and consumers
  • Endorsement: Progressing through the endorsement process

Last updated: 18 April 2024