Maternal Disease Resources
Below find resources grouped by format (guidelines / reports and reviews) on various topics related to maternal disease.
Guidelines
Below find a collection of Green-top Guideline (GTG) resources from the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG), the British Association for Sexual Health and HIV (BASHH), the British HIV Association (BHIVA), the UK Health Security Agency (HSA) and the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) on the topic of maternal disease.
RCOG Guidelines:
- Identification and Management of Maternal Sepsis During and Following Pregnancy (GTG No 64; Dec 2024)FREE
- Cervical Cerclage (GTG 75, June 22)FREE
- Chickenpox in Pregnancy (GTG 15, Jan 2015; minor update 2024)FREE
- Thrombosis and Embolism during Pregnancy and the Puerperium: Reducing the risk (GTG 37a, April 2015)FREE
- Group B Streptococcal Disease, Early-onset (GTG 36, updated Sep 2017)FREE
- Late Intrauterine Fetal Death and Stillbirth (GTG 55, Nov 2010; updated Oct 2024)FREE
- Obstetric Cholestasis (GTG 43, May 2011)FREE
- Epilepsy in Pregnancy (GTG 68, June 2016)FREE
BASHH/RCOG Guidelines:
- Management of Genital Herpes in Pregnancy (Oct, 2024)FREE
BHIVA Guidelines:
- BHIVA Guidelines for the Management of HIV Infection in Pregnancy and the Postpartum Period 2025 FREE
HSA Guidelines:
- Viral Rash in Pregnancy (updated Aug 2024)FREE
NICE Guidelines:
- Diabetes in Pregnancy Quality Standard (QS109, Jan 23 updated)FREE
- Diabetes in Pregnancy: Management from preconception to the postnatal period (NG3, Aug 2015; updated 2020)FREE
- Hypertension in Pregnancy: Diagnosis and management (NG133, June 2019, updated Apr 2023)FREE
Reports and Reviews
Below find journal review articles from the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) and from the RCGP's InnovAiT journal on the topic of antenatal care.
There is also a link below to the confidential enquiries into maternal deaths and perinatal mortality from the MBRRACE-UK (Mothers and Babies: Reducing Risk through Audits and Confidential Enquiries across the UK) collaborative group. These reports are updated annually.
Articles from The Obstetrician & Gynaecologist (TOG) below, which are not marked FREE or which are not open access, may require a subscription or institutional access to read the full content. Check with your university or hospital library regarding institutional access to articles from this journal.
Access to InnovAiT is free to members of the RCGP through the MyRCGP login.
RCOG Reviews:
- Management of Cytomegalovirus Infection in Pregnancy (The Obstetrician & Gynaecologist 2025; 27: 207–218)
- Identification and Management of Maternal Sepsis During and Following Pregnancy (Green-top Guideline No. 64, Dec 2024)FREE
- MBRRACE-UK Update: Key messages from the UK and Ireland Confidential Enquiries into Maternal Death and Morbidity 2024 (The Obstetrician & Gynaecologist 2025; 27: 37–41) – read the MBRRACE-UK report HERE
- Congenital Cytomegalovirus Infection: Update on Screening, Diagnosis and Treatment (Scientific Impact Paper No. 56, updated October 2024; BJOG 2025, 132: e42-e52)FREE
- Spotlight on… Maternal Medicine (The Obstetrician & Gynaecologist 2023; 25: 4–5)
- Management of Gynaecological Cancer in Pregnancy (The Obstetrician & Gynaecologist 2017; 19: 139–46)
- Postural Tachycardia Syndrome and Pregnancy (The Obstetrician & Gynaecologist 2018; 20: 119–23)
InnovAiT Review:
- Gestational Diabetes (InnovAiT 2023; 0(0). doi:10.1177/17557380231206325)FREE to RCGP Members via MyRCGP Login