Consultation documents

• Specialist Neonatal Care Quality Standards
• Comments proforma

Please note that this Standard is provisional and may change after consultation with stakeholders and fieldwork.

Background documents

The following supporting documents were used in formulating the draft quality standards. These are working documents which are provided as background information only and are not for consultation.

• Department of Health Toolkit for Quality Neonatal Services (2009)
• Royal College of Obstetrics and Gynaecology (RCOG) Standards for maternity care (2008)
• British Association of Perinatal Medicine (BAPM) Standards for hospitals providing neonatal intensive and high dependency care (draft 2009)
• Minutes of Specialist Neonatal Care Topic Expert Group Induction Day
• Minutes of Specialist Neonatal Care Topic Expert Group First Meeting
• Minutes of Specialist Neonatal Care Topic Expert Group Second Meeting

How to submit your comments

Please use the comments proforma to record your comments and return by email to QualityStandards@nice.org.uk

The Institute is unable to accept:

• comments received after the consultation deadline (14^th June 5pm).
• confidential information or other material that you would not wish to be made public.
• personal medical information about yourself or another person from which your or the person’s identity could be ascertained.

What will happen to your comments

The quality standards Programme Team and Topic Expert Groups will review all eligible comments received at the end of the consultation and will refine the quality standards in light of this information.

NICE reserves the right to summarise and edit comments received during consultations, or not to publish them at all, where in the reasonable opinion of the Institute, the comments are voluminous, publication would be unlawful or publication would be otherwise inappropriate.

Acknowledgement of comments

You should receive an automated acknowledgement from the email box when you email your comments. If you do not receive this acknowledgement, please contact the quality standards Coordinator to ensure your comments have been safely received by emailing Helen.Crosbie@nice.org.uk.

Comments received in the course of consultations carried out by the Institute are published in the interests of openness and transparency. The comments are published as a record of the submissions that the Institute has received, and are not endorsed by the Institute, its officers or advisory committees.

Anticipated publication date: July 2010

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