Maternity and early years

Guidance and services

• Nursing and midwifery: enabling professionalism
  Guidance for nurses and midwives on the code of professional standards and behaviour.
• Obstetric bleeding strategy: implementation (WHC/2019/011)
  Letter to health professionals regarding the management of postpartum haemorrhage in maternity care.
• Keeping babies safe whilst sleeping: leaflet
  Advice on safe sleeping for babies to reduce the risk of sudden infant death syndrome (cot death).
• Healthy Child Wales Programme
  How we will support the health and welfare of all children up to the age of 7.
• Feeding in the first year of life (WHC/2018/035)
  Recommendations from the Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition (SACN) on infant feeding for 0 to 12 month year olds.
• Intrapartum fetal surveillance standards for maternity services (WHC/2018/024)
  Guidance for health boards on new standards for intrapartum fetal monitoring.
• Care of children and young people with continence problems (WHC/2017/044)
  Guidance for health boards on providing continence products for children and young people.
• Managing the care of babies born on the threshold of survival (WHC/2017/043)
  Guidance for health professionals caring for premature babies born around 23 weeks gestation.
• Hexavalent vaccine for baby immunisation schedule (WHC/2017/039)
  Guidance for GPs on the introduction of the 6 in 1 vaccine (includes hepatitis B) for babies born on or after 1 August 2017.
• Employer led supervision of midwives (WHC/2017/015)
  Guidance for health boards on the role of clinical supervisors for midwives.
• Clinical supervision for midwives
  Guidance on changes to the regulation and supervision of midwives.
• Post-mortem examination of a baby following a stillbirth (WHC/2015/057)
  Guidance on the requirements and process for post-mortem examinations for stillborn infants.
• Guidance on the disposal of foetal remains (WHC/2015/021)
  Advises health boards and trusts of Human Tissue Authority guidance on the procedure for disposing of foetal remains.

Policy and background Includes strategy, reports, projects and assessments.

• Maternity services strategy (2019 to 2024)
  Policy and strategy
  What we will do to ensure safe and high quality care for mothers and babies during pregnancy, childbirth and following birth.
• Breastfeeding plan 2019 to 2024
  Policy and strategy
  How we will encourage and support more mothers to breastfeed and reduce inequalities in breastfeeding rates.
• Review of breastfeeding support and practices in maternity and early years settings
  Report
  Review and recommendations on how to increase the number of breastfed infants.
• 2017 maternity care survey
  Report
  Results and recommendations of a review of women's antenatal and birth experiences.
• Nursing and midwifery: priorities 2016 to 2021
  Policy and strategy
  What we are doing to improve the nursing and midwifery profession.
• A strategy for nurses, midwives and specialist community public health nurses
  Policy and strategy
  How we will help nurses and midwives provide better care for patients.
• Review of maternity services at the former Cwm Taf University Health Board
  Collection
  Terms of reference, evidence and report of the review into maternity services at Cwm Taf Health Board.
• Welsh Nursing and Midwifery Committee: 2 May 2018
  Meeting
  Welsh Nursing and Midwifery Committee
  Minutes from the Welsh Nursing and Midwifery Committee held on 2 May 2018.
• Welsh Nursing and Midwifery Committee: 6 November 2018
  Meeting
  Welsh Nursing and Midwifery Committee
  Minutes from the Welsh Nursing and Midwifery Committee held on 6 November 2018.