Obstetrics, Gynaecology & Urology
This disease area hub brings together relevant content on eGuidelines.co.uk and links to external guidance.
Guidelines in Practice articles
- People with CKD have a higher risk of cardiovascular events
- Contraceptive choice for over 40s depends on risk-benefit profile
- Interventions for bedwetting can help children of all ages
- NICE guideline on UI may require updating in line with new evidence
- NICE guideline on LUTS encompasses all urinary symptoms
- All women requiring contraception should be offered LARCs
- Chlamydia testing should be targeted at high-risk groups
- Primary care can manage most urinary incontinence cases
- Erectile dysfunction is associated with co-morbid conditions
- GPs need to be aware of the risk factors for developing CKD
- Local QOFs may help with obesity management
- Are obesity guidelines in need of an update?
- Greater evidence of action on urinary incontinence is needed
- Long-acting methods of contraception are more cost effective
- GPs should refer patients with ED if the condition causes severe distress
- Most patients with ED can be managed in primary care
- Guideline highlights association of erectile dysfunction and CVD
- Advice on antenatal/postnatal mental health care is revised
- NICE guideline will help to improve sexual health
- Guideline aims to raise the profile of PCOS and improve care
- Woman-centred care is focus of NICE menorrhagia guideline
- New NICE guideline highlights challenges of urinary incontinence
- Female UI can be treated effectively in primary care
- NICE guidance will raise awareness of long-acting reversible contraception
- SIGN advocates team approach to managing incontinent patients
- SIGN notes for discussion with patients: 19. Management of urinary incontinence in primary care
- Sexual health advice in the under-16s: how to negotiate the minefield
- Developing a practice policy for providing emergency contraception
- Contract will challenge GPs to rethink provision of antenatal care
- New guideline will aid management of BPH in primary care
- Guideline helps GPs advise couples who fail to conceive
- New NICE guideline will standardise care of pregnant women
- Guideline will modernise routine antenatal care
- NICE guideline aims to streamline antenatal care
- Guideline will support GP assessment of PMB
- SIGN notes for discussion with patients: 5. Post-menopausal bleeding
- SIGN guideline focuses on post-menopausal bleeding
- NICE referral advice: 10.'Prostatism'
- SIGN notes for discussion with patients: 2. Postnatal Depression
- Early diagnosis improves outcomes in postnatal depression
- Dr Chris Barclay
- NICE referral advice: 4 Menorrhagia
- Assessing prostate size using DRE
- Developing a shared care urology service for general practice
- Changing Practice: effective drug therapy for menorrhagia
- Most cerebral palsy cases originate before labour
- Sterilisation guidelines emphasis patient choice
- Guidelines promote effective GP treatment of menorrhagia
- New guidelines will benefit the infertile couple
Guidelines summaries
- Antenatal and postnatal mental health: clinical management and service guidance
- Chronic kidney disease: early identification and management of chronic kidney disease in adults in primary and secondary care
- Fertility: assessment and treatment for people with fertility problems
- Heavy menstrual bleeding
- Hypertension in pregnancy: the management of hypertensive disorders during pregnancy
- Long-acting reversible contraception
- Nocturnal enuresis: the management of bedwetting in children and young people
- Routine care for the healthy pregnant woman
- Routine postnatal care of women and their babies
- The management of lower urinary tract symptoms in men
- Urinary incontinence in neurological disease: management of lower urinary tract dysfunction in neurological disease
- Urinary incontinence: the management of urinary incontinence in women
- Postnatal sexual and reproductive health
- Guidelines on the management of erectile dysfunction
- The copper intrauterine device as long-term contraception
- Barrier methods for contraception and STI prevention
- Combined hormonal contraception
- Management of vaginal discharge in non-genitourinary medicine settings
- Hormone replacement therapy
- Treatment guidelines for premenstrual syndrome
- Diagnosis and management of polycystic ovary syndrome
NICE clinical guidelines
- Lower urinary tract symptoms
- Urinary tract infection: diagnosis, treatment and long-term management of urinary tract infection in children
- Heavy menstrual bleeding
- Urinary incontinence
- Postnatal care
- Electronic fetal monitoring (links to replacement - CG55)
- Induction of labour (links to replacement - CG70)
- Antenatal care (links to replacement - CG62)
- Fertility
- Caesarean section
- Long-acting reversible contraception
SIGN guidelines
PRODIGY
Demonstrating impact 

- Contraceptive choice for over 40s depends on risk-benefit profile
- Interventions for bedwetting can help children of all ages
- NICE guideline on UI may require updating in line with new evidence
- NICE guideline on LUTS encompasses all urinary symptoms
- All women requiring contraception should be offered LARCs
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