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Donor breast milk banks (CG93) |
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Donor breast milk banks: the operation of donor breast milk bank services
The advice in the NICE guideline covers:
- How milk banks should recruit, screen and support women who donate breast milk
- How milk banks should handle and process the breast milk they receive from donors.
It does not specifically look at:
- How donated breast milk is used after it leaves the milk bank
- The care and treatment of babies who receive donated breast milk
- How mothers should handle and store breast milk for their own babies.
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Other information
How this guidance was produced
Background information
This page was last updated: 11 November 2011
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Guideline formats
Coming soon
NICE has produced an implementation briefing for milk bank staff which includes a statement from the UK Association of Milk Banking
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Implementation tools and resources
- Audit support
- Baseline assessment tool
- Checklist
- Costing statement
- Slide set
- CG93 Donor breast milk banks: implementation briefing for milk bank staff
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NICE Guideline
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