What are the priority topics for the new Pregnancy and Postnatal Care Living Guidelines? Share your thoughts…

With work about to get underway on the new guidelines later this month, the LEAPP team are keen to hear your views on priority areas for pregnancy and postnatal care.

We now have two Prioritisation Surveys open – one for health care professionals and one for consumers:

Pregnancy and Postnatal care Priorities Survey for consumers

We’d love to hear from people who:

  • are or have been pregnant in the last five years

  • are planning to be pregnant

  • are a partner of someone who is or has been pregnant in the past five years

  • are a maternity consumer representative.

Our survey asks respondents to think about care during and after pregnancy – but not during labour and delivery. Questions ask about

  • topics of the highest interest/importance

  • awareness about the current pregnancy care guidelines

  • what we should consider when developing clinical guidance for the community.

The survey takes around 5-10 minutes to complete and participation is voluntary, anonymous and much appreciated. It’s now open and closes at 5pm on Friday 18 August.

Our Prioritisation survey for healthcare providers aims to capture the opinions, ideas and diverse experiences of Australian healthcare practitioners and others who provide this care.

It asks respondents to think about care during and after pregnancy – but not during labour and delivery.

Key focus areas include:

  • topics that pose the most clinical uncertainty

  • topics that are likely to have the most impact on patient outcomes

  • topics where evidence is emerging or the context is changing, requiring new or different guidance.

The Prioritisation Survey is now open and closes at 5pm on Friday 18 August.

You’ll find both surveys and further details at livingevidence.org.au/leapp.

If you have any questions, please contact Dr Tanya Millard at tanya.millard@monash.edu.


SurveysShauna HurleyPregnancy, Postnatal care, Consumers