Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Last updated: August 2025
Evidence-based resources
- NICE Clinical Knowledge Summaries: Pregnancy; Women’s health
- NICE Guidance: Fertility, pregnancy and childbirth; Infants and neonates; Gynaecological conditions
- Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists: Green-top Guidelines
- UpToDate: Clinical decision support tool available to all Trust staff. Access from work by clicking ‘UpToDate’ in the Start Menu and signing in with your Athens account.
- BMJ Best Practice: Clinical decision support tool available to all Trust staff. Log in using your Athens account.
- Cochrane Library of Systematic Reviews
Ockenden maternity review
- Ockenden maternity review official website: Includes updates on the current review of Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust.
- Final report of the Ockenden review (2022): Findings, conclusions, and actions from the Ockenden review of maternity services at Shrewsbury and Telford Hospitals NHS Trust.
- E-Learning for Healthcare: Maternity Resources: Ockenden Immediate and Essential Actions (log in with your Athens account).
- National Bereavement Care Pathway for pregnancy and baby loss: A pathway to improve the bereavement care parents in England receive after pregnancy or baby loss.
- NHS England: Implementing the Recommendations of the Neonatal Critical Care Transformation Review (2019, updated 2020)
- NHS England Guidance: Saving babies’ lives version two: A care bundle for reducing perinatal mortality (2019, updated 2025)
- NICE Guidelines:
- Diabetes in pregnancy: management from preconception to the postnatal period (2015, updated 2020)
- Hypertension in pregnancy: diagnosis and management (2019, updated 2023)
- Twin and triplet pregnancy (2019, updated 2024)
National Maternity and Neonatal Investigation
- National Maternity and Neonatal Investigation website.
- Independent Investigation into Maternity and Neonatal Services in England – Interim Report (publised February 2026)
Library resources
The Library has a wide range of textbooks covering obstetrics and gynaecology and all clinical specialties, as well as non-clinical subjects such as research and leadership. All East Cheshire NHS Trust staff are able to join the library and borrow books. You can also search for e-journals, e-books and other online resources through the NHS Knowledge & Library Hub.
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- Podcast: Leading Improvement in Health and Care episode 4: Maternity (NHS Confederation, 2024) featuring Black Maternity Matters
- BMJ: Obstetrics and gynaecology
- Ockenden review update newsletter
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Journals
Access all our journals online via BrowZine. Browse journal titles, access full texts, or save favourite journals and articles to your bookshelf. Click the link below to browse titles related to obstetrics and gynaecology.
Learning and development
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