Hello,
The National Institute for Clinical Excellence has recently issued draft quality care standards for antenatal care, and they're currently consulting on them. (If you want to see the full draft standard, please see here.)
As a stakeholder in the process, we at MNHQ are going to feed back to NICE based on your responses on this thread (and on other relevant threads) - so do please let us know what you think. (Unfortunately only registered stakeholders can provide feedback, so unless you are one you won't be able to feed back directly.)
I'm afraid it's difficult to summarise the draft standard concisely, but if you look on pages 4 to 5 here you will see some useful summaries and proposed questions for consideration, including such things as membrane sweeps, treatment of overweight mothers and gestational diabetes.
(Please note that, as NICE points out, this standard doesn't include the inpatient care of pregnant women, the care of specific physical conditions, mental health problems or social problems in pregnant women, or antenatal complications. There is a separate NICE consultation on 'Pain and bleeding in early pregnancy', for which we are a registered stakeholder, and we will alert you to the consultation on that one when it's announced.)
We need to feed back by Tuesday (yikes!), so if you could post any views here by close of play on Monday, that would be great.
Best wishes,
MNHQ