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Antenatal care

  • Quality standard
  • Reference number: QS22
  • Published:  17 September 2012
  • Last updated:  14 February 2023
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  1. Summary versions
  2. Implementation support
  3. Audit and service improvement
  4. Guidance into practice

Tools and resources

Tools to help you put the guidance into practice.

Summary versions

  • Interactive antenatal and postnatal mental health checklist (PDF 83 KB)

    Published:
    30 January 2025

Implementation support

  • Implementation support toolkit

  • Implementation resources - Antenatal care

  • Implementation resources - Pregnancy and complex social factors: a model for service provision for pregnant women with complex social factors

  • Implementation resources - Vaccine uptake in the general population

  • Implementation resources - Flu vaccination: increasing uptake

  • Implementation resources - Tobacco: preventing uptake, promoting quitting and treating dependence

  • Implementation resources - Maternal and child nutrition: nutrition and weight management in pregnancy, and nutrition in children up to 5 years

  • How to use quality standards

Audit and service improvement

  • Quality standard service improvement template (Excel 1.18 MB)

    Published:
    04 March 2025

Guidance into practice

  • About the Into practice guide

  • Practical steps to improving the quality of care and services using NICE guidance