MRCOG Part 2 – Knowledge Area 8 – Management of Delivery 

RCOG Guidelines

• Operative Vaginal Delivery – GTG No. 26 – April 2020
• Shoulder dystocia – GTG No. 42 – March 2012
• Umbilical Cord Prolapse – GTG No. 50 – November 2014

NICE Guidelines

• Caesarean Birth – NICE NG192 – Updated June 2025

RCOG – Other Publications

** PLEASE NOTE: As of July 2025, some of the previous RCOG Consent Advice documents have been archived. We have retained the existing links for candidate information. **

• Planned Caesarean Birth – RCOG Consent Advice No. 14 – August 2022
• Caesarean Section for Placenta Praevia – RCOG Consent Advice No. 12 – December 2010
• Clamping of the umbilical cord and placental transfusion – RCOG Scientific Impact Paper No. 14 – February 2015
• Management of Impacted Fetal Head at Caesarean Birth – RCOG Scientific Impact Paper No. 73 – June 2023
• Operative Vaginal Delivery – RCOG Consent Advice No. 11 – July 2010
• Umbilical Cord Blood Banking – RCOG Scientific Advisory Committee Opinion Paper 2 – June 2006

Miscellaneous

• Perinatal Management of Extreme Preterm Birth Before 27 weeks of Gestation (2019) – A BAPM Framework for Practice

TOG Articles

• Caesarean section at full dilatation- incidence, impact and current management – TOG 2014;16:199–205
• Complications of caesarean section – TOG 2016;18:265–72
• Internal podalic version with breech extraction – TOG 2011;13:7–14
• Management of delivery when malposition of the fetal head complicates the second stage of labour – TOG 2015;17:273–80
• Perimortem Caesarean section – why, when and how – TOG 2018 20:151:158
• Management of term breech presentation – TOG 2023 25:8-18