Antenatal Shared Care providers are required to complete three hours of eligible education per year to maintain their ANSC registration.
When you attend a SWSPHN-run CPD event, your hours will be recorded with the RACGP as well as SWSPHN’s ANSC records, on your behalf. For CPD events external to SWSPHN, you are encouraged to email CPD evidence to ansc@swsphn.com.au.
Eligible Antenatal Shared Care education activities are pregnancy-specific
Education hours can be recorded across different types of activities, for example, as a combination of educational activities and involvement on a relevant committee. If using an activity which does not provide a completion certificate, please provide evidence such as minutes or reflections from learnings, and include the ANSC education hours being claimed in your personal records.
Relevant SWSPHN CPD events
Upcoming Antenatal Shared Care education activities are promoted in Baby Monitor – the newsletter for ANSC providers. A CPD event email is also sent to all South Western Sydney-based GPs every Friday morning. This email shares RACGP-approved CPD activities.
GPs may also check the CPD events calendar on our website for upcoming SWSPHN-run events.
Sample of Antenatal Shared Care education activity topics
To ensure the relevance of any education activity, GPs should consult the list of approved ANSC topics below.
- Anueploidy and early pregnancy screening (including NIPT, NT, cFTS, pre-eclampsia screening)
- Breastfeeding and infant feeding
- Early pregnancy complications (including miscarriage, molar, ectopic pregnancies, hyperemesis)
- Gestational diabetes
- Hypertension and preeclampsia in pregnancy
- Immediate postnatal period
- Immunisation schedule
- Labour and birth pain relief options in labour, non-pharmacological options for labour, positions for labour and birth, modes of birth, perineal tears and preventative strategies
- LGTBQIA: inclusivity for people having babies
- Medical termination of pregnancy (MTOP) and contraception
- Newborn behaviours including sleep, settling, and safe sleeping
- Newborn check
- Preconception: genetic carrier screening (preconception or during pregnancy – not paediatric), problem solving, assisted reproductive therapies, subfertility for women and men
- Psychosocial: mental health (anxiety and/or depression during pregnancy), domestic violence, homelessness amongst pregnant women, substance use
- Safety and exposure to medications during pregnancy
- Sexually transmitted infections and diseases and pregnancy impacts
- Sudden Unexpected Death in Infancy (SUDI)/Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)
- Supporting women and families after a perinatal loss (miscarriage, stillbirth or neonatal death)
- Surviving the first six weeks
Useful links
More about SWSPHN CPD events
About Antenatal Shared Care program – information for GPs
Baby Monitor archive
HealthChat
Get in touch
Contact the SWSPHN ANSC team at ANSC@swsphn.com.au
For any clinical questions, please reach out to the Clinical Midwife Consultants of the program at SWSLHD-CMCGPSC@health.nsw.gov.au
The Antenatal Shared Care program is supported jointly by South Western Sydney Local Health District (SWSLHD) and South Western Sydney PHN (SWSPHN).