SWSPHN Antenatal Shared Care Program

To register for any of the listed events, please go to the SWSPHN CPD Page.

To register for the Supporting the Perinatal Mental Health Webinar, the direct link is available here.

The Antenatal Shared Care Guide provides direction and clinical guidance to recognised ANSC GP providers. The Guide was last reviewed and updated in 2023.

The Guide and Quickguide are under review currently. During the review period of Jul-September please use the current guide.

The updated versions will be available on the same links soon.

Both the Guide and Protocol can be found within the ANSC Folder.

Please discard previous versions of the Guidelines and Protocol.

We have heard from many GPs that you do not receive electronic Maternity Discharge Summaries. The Antenatal GPSC team is working with eHealth to try and rectify this issue.

Some work, through eHealth, has been happening but some information is needed to establish if it is successful broadly.

Please complete this 3 question survey to give the GPSC team and eHealth some help. You can share the survey broadly within your practice, as it is not limited to Antenatal GPSC providers.

Survey Link

Thank you for your help,

Bec and Wendy.

Mercy Hospital for Women and The University of Melbourne are studying GP perspectives on universal screening for cytomegalovirus (CMV) in pregnancy.

Recent European guidelines have changed to recommend universal first trimester CMV screening to identify maternal infection early and facilitate timely antenatal interventions to reduce congenital infection. Researchers are asking GPs to complete a 10-minute survey to evaluate whether routine CMV screening in pregnancy would be acceptable and feasible to implement if Australia were to introduce routine antenatal CMV screening. The study findings will help inform future health policy in antenatal care.

This research study has received ethical approval from University of Melbourne Human Research Ethics Committee (#2025-31079-65660-4).

GPs who complete the survey will have the option to go into a draw to win one of three $100 gift cards.

Please follow this link here for full details and link to the online survey:

https://redcap.unimelb.edu.au/surveys/?s=WLMCLDN3ECD7FY4P

or scan the QR code below to complete the survey on your phone.

For further information please contact:

Dr Natalia Rode - natalia.rode@unimelb.edu.au

Education and Research GP, Department of Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Newborn Health

The University of Melbourne

The below poster has been developed for GPs to easily provide access for pregnant women to the:

• Booking in My Pregnancy (BiMP) online form
• Information resources for early pregnancy

You can download the poster here.

Following after the WDEP CPD opportunity sent last week, there are some very valuable consumer resources available through Western Sydney University.

Diabetes Contraception and Pre-pregnancy Program (DCAPP) background is below. Click the image to access the resources.

Western Sydney University offers a free, online, 1 hour CPD module on pre-conception planning for women who have pre-existing diabetes.

Click the image to access the resources.

The Cerebral Palsy Alliance has a Cytomegalovirus (CMV) resource hub. The CMV Resource Hub has a variety of different resources including consumer resources such as pamphlets and posters, to clinician online education modules. The GP e-learning module "Infections in Pregnancy" is outlined below.

Click the image to access the registration page.