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The programme aims to help an additional 30,000 women, offering them the correct care at the right time to try and further reduce tragedies or issues that can occur when left untreated.
NHS England has announced the launch of a £5m Perinatal Community Services Development Fund as a first step to assist closing a wide gap in the availability of high quality care for women with severe or complex conditions. For example, fewer than 15% of areas currently provide services to levels recommended in national guidelines, and more than 40% provide no service at all.
These specialist community services provide care and support to women with a mental illness in pregnancy or the postnatal period. They also respond to crises, aim to decrease risks to mothers and babies and offer after care following an inpatient stay in a mother and baby unit.
As many as one in five women experience mental ill health during pregnancy or in the year after birth, covering conditions such as depression, anxiety or in some cases post-partum psychosis. This affects about two in every 1,000 new mothers and suicide is the second leading cause of maternal death, after cardiovascular disease.
Overall, £365m has been allocated for specialist perinatal mental health services over the next five years. By 2021, 30,000 more women each year will be able to access care and treatment.
Dr Giles Berrisford, Associate National Clinical Director for Perinatal Mental Health, commented: "We absolutely need to ensure that all women have the access to high quality perinatal mental health care and are committed to addressing current issues and variation. If left untreated, it can have a devastating impact on the woman affected and her family.
"I am delighted that we can use this fund to build capacity in the community, focusing on what works really well for women and their families and how we can help to spread some of this good practice to other parts of the country speedily and to best effect."
Health leaders can now submit proposals, focusing on increasing access and improving quality. Further information and guidance is now available here to support applications and applications can now be made here.
They must be submitted by Friday 16 September 2016 by 5pm. Successful applicants will be informed in October 2016.
(JP)
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Mental Health Care Fund Launched For New & Expectant Mothers
The NHS has unveiled details regarding a new initiative that aims to help new or expectant mothers with serious mental illness.The programme aims to help an additional 30,000 women, offering them the correct care at the right time to try and further reduce tragedies or issues that can occur when left untreated.
NHS England has announced the launch of a £5m Perinatal Community Services Development Fund as a first step to assist closing a wide gap in the availability of high quality care for women with severe or complex conditions. For example, fewer than 15% of areas currently provide services to levels recommended in national guidelines, and more than 40% provide no service at all.
These specialist community services provide care and support to women with a mental illness in pregnancy or the postnatal period. They also respond to crises, aim to decrease risks to mothers and babies and offer after care following an inpatient stay in a mother and baby unit.
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As many as one in five women experience mental ill health during pregnancy or in the year after birth, covering conditions such as depression, anxiety or in some cases post-partum psychosis. This affects about two in every 1,000 new mothers and suicide is the second leading cause of maternal death, after cardiovascular disease.
Overall, £365m has been allocated for specialist perinatal mental health services over the next five years. By 2021, 30,000 more women each year will be able to access care and treatment.
Dr Giles Berrisford, Associate National Clinical Director for Perinatal Mental Health, commented: "We absolutely need to ensure that all women have the access to high quality perinatal mental health care and are committed to addressing current issues and variation. If left untreated, it can have a devastating impact on the woman affected and her family.
"I am delighted that we can use this fund to build capacity in the community, focusing on what works really well for women and their families and how we can help to spread some of this good practice to other parts of the country speedily and to best effect."
Health leaders can now submit proposals, focusing on increasing access and improving quality. Further information and guidance is now available here to support applications and applications can now be made here.
They must be submitted by Friday 16 September 2016 by 5pm. Successful applicants will be informed in October 2016.
(JP)
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