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The Women’s Health and Maternal Well-being Initiative responded to the proposed National Institute for Health and Care Excellene (NICE) guidelines to introduce induction of labour at 39 weeks for Black, Asian and minority ethnic women. 

The Women’s Health and Maternal Well-being Initiative responded to the proposed NICE guidelines to introduce induction of labour at 39 weeks for Black, Asian and minority ethnic women.  The guideline did include others groups. However, due to being notified at very late notice we could only respond on the points involving minoritised ethnic groups. You can read our response below and find a list of the signatories which included:

• Service-users

• Service-user representatives

• MVP chairs

• Doulas

• Breastfeeding specialists

• Midwives (including consultant and HOMs)

• Nurses

• GPs

• Professionals from the criminal justice system

• Charity CEOs and directors

• Researchers

• Lecturers

• Psychologists

• Therapists

We had 630 responses demonstrating how strongly people feel about the recommendations and we hope that NICE will carefully consider removing the recommendation. We will inform you of any updates on this issue. Please make sure you are following us on our social media pages.

Click the links below to read the response and to see the list of signatories.

The WHMWI responds to NICE Induction of Labour recommendations FINAL

Signatories for NICE IOL