Policy and Guidelines
Policies and guidelines are written for use across the SW network based on current evidence and expert opinion collated by SW network working groups. All policies and guidelines are ratified following the standard network governance procedure. They are designed to supplement and compliment, not directly replace, and exisiting local trust policies unless unanimously agreed at board level where they are of a clinical nature.
- Network Policies
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Network Clinical Guidelines
- Guideline for Tube Feeding
- Guideline for the Use of Donor Breast Milk
- Guideline for Caffeine Use in Preterm Infants
- Guideline for the Management of Infant of Mother with Thyroid Disease
- Guideline for the Use of Probiotics in Preterm Babies
- Guideline for the Care Pathway for Infants requiring Laser Surgery for Retinopathy of Prematurity
- Guideline for Skin to Skin
- Guideline for Regional Neonatal Parenteral Nutrition
- FFN Principles of Preterm Labour
- Infant Neuro-Development Care Bundle
- SWNN Parent Competency NGT.pdf
- National Guidelines
- South West Local Guidelines
- Guidelines Opt Out Form