Queensland Clinical Guidelines Translating evidence into best clinical practice
Recent updates
May 2025
- Published after full review NeoMedQ - ampicillin, caffeine citrate, cefotaxime, diazoxide, flucloxacillin, glucagon
- Published: scope for VTE guideline review
- Published: scope for Neonatal medicines guideline review
April 2025
- Amendment: Rh D negative woman and pregnancy guideline, supplement, consumer information and education presentation
- Published: working party member list for Endometriosis
- Published: working party member list for Menstrual management in children and adolescents
- Amendment: Fetal movements guideline, supplement and flowchart
March 2025
- Amendment: Early onset Group B strep guideline, supplement, maternal flowchart,education
- Amendment: Induction of labour guideline, supplement, balloon flowchart
- Amendment: Preterm labour and birth guideline, supplement, education, consumer information, knowledge assessment and flowchart
- Amendment: Instrumental vaginal birth guideline and supplement
- Published full review: Neonatal medicines (NeoMedQ) nevirapine, lamivudine, zidovudine, suxamethonium, dopamine, frusemide, chloral hydrate
- Published: Endometriosis - scope
- Published: Menstrual management in children and adolescents - scope
February 2025
- Published: First publication Newborn bloodspot screening guideline, supplement, consumer information, education presentation and knowledge assessment
- Published: Full review Intrapartum fetal surveillance guideline, supplement, consumer information, education presentation and knowledge assessment
Amendment: Newborn assessment (routine) guideline, supplement, consumer information, education presentation and knowledge assessment
January 2025
- Published: Imminent birth flowchart - no change to clinical content. Date of review updated
- Published: First publication neonatal medicine Benzathine benzylpenicillin
- Amendment neonatal medicines valganciclovir, ganciclovir, nirsevimab
- Published: Full review neonatal medicine mupirocin
December 2024
- Published: Full review Syphilis and pregnancy - guideline, supplement, consumer information, education presentation, flowcharts, knowledge assessment
- Published : Full review Respiratory distress and CPAP - guideline, supplement, consumer information, education presentation, flowcharts, knowledge assessment
- Published: Gestational diabetes mellitus - scope
- Published: Intrapartum fetal surveillance - scope
- Published: Prolonged and/or obstructed labour - scope
November 2024
- Published: Full review Implementation checklist for guidelines (word and pdf version)
- Amendment: Primary postpartum haemorrhage guideline and supplement
- Published: First publication Position statement: Gender associated language
- Published: First publication neonatal medicine bevacizumab
- Published: Full review neonatal medicine atropine
- Published: Full review neonatal medicine hydroxocobalamin (vitamin B12)
September 2024
- Published: First publication - Acute presentation of persistent pelvic pain guideline and supplement
- Published: First publication neonatal medicine nirsevimab
- Published: Full review neonatal medicine aciclovir
- Published: Full review neonatal medicine meropenem
- Published: Scope for CPAP and respiratory distress
- Published: Full review of Termination of pregnancy guideline, supplement, consumer information flowcharts, education presentation
August 2024
- Published: Full review neonatal medicine tetracaine
- Published: Full review neonatal medicine chloramphenicol
- Published: Full review of Primary postpartum haemorrhage guideline, supplement, education presentation, flowcharts, consumer information
- Published: Publicly funded homebirth: consumer information
- Amendment: Trauma in pregnancy guideline - review date extended until August 2025
- Amendment: Neonatal medicines guideline - review date extended until August 2025
July 2024
- Amendment: Early pregnancy loss guideline, supplement and flowchart
- Published: Scope for Acute presentation of persistent pelvic pain new guideline development
- Amendment: Hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy guideline and supplement
June 2024
- Published: First publication - Publicly funded homebirth, guideline, supplement, flowcharts, education presentation and knowledge assessment
May 2024
- Published: First publication - neonatal medicine monograph sildenafil (NeoMedQ)
- Published: Parent Information "Mental health during pregnancy and after birth" to accompany the clinical guideline Perinatal mental health
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 hydralazine 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: Gestational diabetes mellitus
New: Prolonged and or obstructed labour
New: Endometriosis
Review: Neonatal jaundice
New: Menstrual management in children and adolescents
Review: Neonatal medicines
Review: Perinatal care of the extremely preterm baby
Review: Vaginal birth after caesarean
Review: Venous thromboembolism (VTE) prophylaxis in pregnancy and the puerperium
Review: Trauma in pregnancy
New: Primary birthing
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
