Queensland Clinical Guidelines (QCG)

QCG is a well-established website with multiple maternity and neonatal guidelines. QCG also contains other learning resources, consumer information and more.

Visit Queensland Clinical Guidelines for more information.

Maternity Guidelines

  • Analgesia in labour
  • COVID-19 guidance for maternity services
  • Early Pregnancy Loss
  • Early onset Group B Streptococcal disease
  • Fetal movements
  • Gestational diabetes mellitus
  • Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy
  • Induction of labour
  • Instrumental vaginal birth
  • Intrapartum fetal surveillance
  • Iron deficiency and anaemia
  • Normal birth
  • Obesity in pregnancy
  • Perinatal substance use: maternal
  • Perineal care
  • Prelabour rupture of membranes - Preterm (PPROM)
  • Prelabour rupture of membranes - Term (PROM)
  • Preterm labour and birth
  • Primary postpartum haemorrhage
  • Stillbirth care
  • Syphilis in pregnancy
  • Termination of pregnancy
  • Trauma in pregnancy
  • Vaginal birth after caesarean section (VBAC)

Neonatal Guidelines

  • Assessment - Routine Newborn
  • Breastfeeding - Establishing breastfeeding
  • Hypoglycaemia - Newborn (Updated Oct 2019)
  • Hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy
  • Jaundice - Neonatal
  • Medicines - Neonatal
  • Perinatal care at the threshold of viability (Under review)
  • Perinatal substance use: neonatal
  • Respiratory distress and CPAP (Updated June 2020)
  • Resuscitation - neonatal
  • Seizures - neonatal (Updated Oct 2019)
  • Stabilisation for retrieval - neonatal
  • Term small for gestational age baby

Standard Care

  • Standard care
  • Partnering with the woman who declines recommended maternity care

Operational Care

  • Maternity shared care
  • COVID-19: For maternity and neonatal services
  • Non-urgent referral for antenatal care