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Name of Trust/Board:
Name of Hospital / Unit:
1. Please supply a copy of your guideline(s) relating to group B Strep during pregnancy, labour, and in newborn babies
2. Please provide the date when your guidelines relating to group B Strep during pregnancy and labour was last updated
3. Please provide the date when your guidelines relating to group B Strep during pregnancy and labour is due to be updated
4. Do you provide information materials routinely to pregnant women about group B Strep as a routine part of antenatal care?
5. Do you provide ALL pregnant women with information materials about group B Strep?
a) If not to all pregnant women, do you provide them to women who have previously had a baby with GBS infection?
b) If not to all pregnant women, do you provide them to women where GBS has been detected during the current pregnancy (swab or urine)?
c) If not to all pregnant women, do you provide them to women who are in preterm labour?
d) If not to all pregnant women, do you provide them to women whose waters break early?
e) If not to all pregnant women, do you provide them to women who request information?
6. Please supply copies of the information materials (physical and/or digital) which are given to women about GBS as a routine part of antenatal care.
7. What was the Trust/Board’s recorded number of early-onset GBS infections (EOGBS infections develop in babies aged 0-6 days) and late-onset GBS infection (LOGBS infections develop in babies aged 7-90 days) for 2017 and 2018. This may include those who developed GBS infection while in hospital, and those who were brought to hospital (i.e. fell ill after going home). Please also supply your declared total number of births within your Trust/Board for each year
8. Does the Trust/Board offer culture-based GBS testing for GBS carriage in late pregnancy to women where GBS was detected in a previous pregnancy?
9. Does the Trust/Board offer culture-based GBS testing for GBS carriage in late pregnancy to women in any other circumstances?
10. If the Trust/Board undertakes GBS testing for GBS carriage in to women in late pregnancy, which of the following specimen types do you collect?
a) Vaginal Swab
b) Rectal Swab
c) Both Vaginal and Rectal Swab
d) Other (please state)
11. If the Trust/Board undertakes GBS testing for GBS carriage in women in late pregnancy, which detection method is used by the Microbiology laboratory?
a) Direct culture on non-selective, non-chromogenic media
b) Direct culture on selective &/or indicator media
c) Broth enrichment with subculture onto non-selective, non-chromogenic media
d) Broth enrichment with subculture onto selective &/or chromogenic media
e) Other (Please state)
12. Is testing for GBS carriage within the accredited scope of the Microbiology laboratory?
13. Does the Microbiology laboratory use an automated specimen processor (e.g. WASP)?
14. If the Microbiology lab uses an automated specimen processor, does it allow enrichment broth inoculation?

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