Knowledgebase

GP update: nausea and vomiting in pregnancy (RCOG, 2024)

When to use the PUQE tool in general practice.

GP update: Recurrent miscarriage (RCOG 2023)

Dr Louise Hudman summarises some changes to advice for supporting women experiencing recurrent miscarriage.

Antenatal care in general practice

VTE risk should be reassessed after every hospital admission or significant health event, a key takeaway from this update.

Obstetrics

NICE postnatal care update

A mammoth NICE update on newborns and their mothers' health.

Obstetrics

Gestational trophoblastic disease – a new RCOG guideline

New guideline from RCOG, published in June 2020, on managing Gestational Trophoblastic Disease (GTD). There is a useful section on when to suspect GTD.

e-learning – Iron deficiency in pregnancy

An October 2019 guideline from BSH on managing iron deficiency in pregnancy has a few interesting points, particularly for GP locums facing requests from midwives to prescribe iron

Obstetrics

e-learning | Hypertension in pregnancy

Louise Hudman introduces the latest guideline on hypertension in pregnancy from NICE.

Obstetrics

e-Learning | Alcohol exposure prenatally and its effects on children and young people

This is a guideline on Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder from SIGN outlining the assessment and management of children who have had prenatal alcohol exposure (PAE).

Valproate – contraindicated in women of childbearing potential

You have probably heard about this on the news, or seen it in other forms, but in case you have missed it, I felt it important to do an update.

Obstetrics

New tests for pre-eclampsia (PlGF-based testing)

RCOG | Ovarian Hyperstimulation Syndrome

RCOG | Chickenpox in pregnancy

Nice | Antenatal and postnatal mental health

RCOG | Management of beta thalassaemia in pregnancy

RCOG | The management of women with red cell antibodies during pregnancy

Nice | Vision amniotic leak detector

Nice | Tobacco: harm-reduction approaches to smoking

Sign | Management of perinatal mood disorders

Rhesus D prophylaxis in pregnancy

RCOG | Breast cancer and pregnancy

Iron deficiency in pregnancy

There is a lot of uncertainty about managing anaemia and iron deficiency in pregnancy. A lot of what we do is based on consensus, rather than on evidence.

Read GP financial advice on setting up a self assessment tax account for sessional GP work, starting out as a GP locum, how IR35 affects your GP locum, whether to join, stay or leave the NHS Pension Scheme, and what allowable expenses GP locums should record in their annual tax return.

Knowledgebase

GP update: nausea and vomiting in pregnancy (RCOG, 2024)

GP update: Recurrent miscarriage (RCOG 2023)

Antenatal care in general practice

NICE postnatal care update

Gestational trophoblastic disease – a new RCOG guideline

e-learning – Iron deficiency in pregnancy

e-learning | Hypertension in pregnancy

e-Learning | Alcohol exposure prenatally and its effects on children and young people

Valproate – contraindicated in women of childbearing potential

Post pregnancy contraception

New tests for pre-eclampsia (PlGF-based testing)

RCOG | Ovarian Hyperstimulation Syndrome

RCOG | Chickenpox in pregnancy

Nice | Antenatal and postnatal mental health

RCOG | Management of beta thalassaemia in pregnancy

RCOG | The management of women with red cell antibodies during pregnancy

Nice | Vision amniotic leak detector

Nice | Tobacco: harm-reduction approaches to smoking

Ella-One and breast-feeding

Sepsis following pregnancy

Sign | Management of perinatal mood disorders

Antepartum Haemorrhage

Multiple pregnancy

Caesarean Section

Obstetric cholestasis

Rhesus D prophylaxis in pregnancy

RCOG | Breast cancer and pregnancy

Maternal collapse

Iron deficiency in pregnancy

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