Peer-support programme for women who breastfeed
This commissioning guide provides support for the local implementation of NICE public health guidance through commissioning, and is a resource to help health professionals in England to commission an effective peer-support programme for women who breastfeed.
This commissioning guide should be read in conjunction with the following NICE guidance:
- NICE public health guidance PH11. Improving the nutrition of pregnant and breastfeeding mothers and children in low-income households
- NICE clinical guideline CG37. Postnatal care.
The NICE guidance covers clinical and cost effectiveness in detail and underpins the content of this guide. Implementation of the guidance noted above is the responsibility of local commissioners and/or providers. Commissioners and providers are reminded that it is their responsibility to implement this guidance, in their local context, in light of their duties to avoid unlawful discrimination and to have regard to promoting equality of opportunity. Nothing in the guidance should be interpreted in a way which would be inconsistent with compliance with those duties.
The guide:
- makes the case for commissioning a breastfeeding peer-support programme
- specifies service requirements
- helps you determine local service levels
- helps you ensure corporate and quality assurance.
The full text of this commissioning guide is accessed from the navigation menu on the right hand side of the screen. The associated commissioning tool is available until 25 June 2010 to primary care organisations in England who are already registered to use the tool. New registrations for the existing commissioning tool will not be possible after 31 March 2010.
From 1 April 2010 the new freely available commissioning and benchmarking tool can be downloaded here. There is no need to register.
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Topic-specific Advisory Group: breastfeeding peer-support programme
September 2008
This page was last updated: 02 March 2012
- Breastfeeding peer-support programme
- Commissioning a peer-support programme for women who breastfeed
- Specifying a peer-support programme for women who breastfeed
- Determining local service levels for a peer-support programme for women who breastfeed
- Assumptions used in estimating a population benchmark
- The commissioning and benchmarking tool
- Ensuring corporate and quality assurance
