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Maternal Mental Health: improving the lives of mothers and their infants

Maternal Mental Health: improving the lives of mothers and their infants. Maria Bavetta Everyone’s Business Campaign Communications Officer Maternal Mental Health Alliance .

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Maternal Mental Health: improving the lives of mothers and their infants

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  1. Maternal Mental Health: improving the lives of mothers and their infants Maria Bavetta Everyone’s Business Campaign Communications Officer Maternal Mental Health Alliance

  2. A coalition of over fifty UK organisations committed to improving the mental health and wellbeing of women and their children in pregnancy and the first postnatal year

  3. Awareness All women and partners who are expecting a baby or considering starting a family are aware of the full range of emotional and mental health issues involved and know where to seek the right support and services, for themselves or others

  4. Education Perinatal mental health is discussed as openly and regularly as physical health. All women are asked about their mental health by the health and social care professionals seeing them or their children and are referred appropriately in line with national guidance.

  5. Action All women in the UK have access to NICE/SIGN compliant mental healthcare during pregnancy and postnatally, so that women and children no longer suffer the serious negative consequences of avoidable and treatable mental health problems at this time

  6. New resource published! • For maternity managers and commissioners looking to: • introduce or strengthen the Specialist Mental Health Midwife role in their local service • Available now from the Maternal Mental Health Alliance website

  7. Questions for Reflection 1. What is a leading cause of maternal mortality? 2. How many women will develop a perinatal mental Illness?(i.e. mental illness during pregnancy or first postpartum year) 3. How many women died just in London in 2012 / 13 as a result of a perinatal mental illness?

  8. What can Maternity services do? • Strategic Leadership: perinatal mental health strategies need to include maternity AND mental health • Regular perinatal mental health training for all midwives, health visitors, obstetricians and gynaecologists; including in local care pathway • Specialist advanced training for Specialist Mental Health Midwives & Health Visitor Champions

  9. What can Maternity services do? • Easy access to (and formal representation on) specialist perinatal mental health teams (who will in turn be linked to a psychiatric mother & baby unit) • Information, information, information! Pregnancy and postpartum literature & classes often alarmingly missing-out mental health completely

  10. Exciting News! • National 3 year campaign funded by Comic Relief to improve perinatal mental health services launching online the Summer! • Everyone’s Business • Parity • Cost

  11. Collate data, guidance, research • Provide practical resources to support commissioning of Perinatal Mental Health Services • Map specialist perinatal mental health services • Showcase solutions and examples of best practice • Launch a report on the economic case for action

  12. maria@app-network.org 07807 130878

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