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26/09/2016
The Mother and Baby Units (MBUs) will be located in East Anglia – Cambridgeshire, Norfolk and Suffolk; the North West – Cumbria and Lancashire; and the South West – Cornwall, Devon and Somerset.
They will provide in-patient support for women and their babies with severe needs who require hospital care who are experiencing severe mental health crisis including conditions like post-partum psychosis.
Increasing capacity in these units is an element of NHS England's transformation programme for perinatal mental health services. This includes the creation of new units in areas with the most severe access issues, as well as reviewing capacity in existing units, with funding across a five-year period.
The perinatal mental health programme also supports the ambitions of the wider Maternity Transformation Programme, which aims to deliver the vision set out in Better Births, a report of the National Maternity Review to improve maternity outcomes for women and their babies.
Commenting on the announcement, Dr Giles Berrisford, NHS England's Associate Director for Perinatal Mental Health, said: "We know there is variation across the country in access to services for mums who need care for severe mental health problems.
"Sometimes an inpatient stay is the most appropriate treatment for a mum and mother and baby units enable women to stay with their babies at this important time, which helps achieve the best outcomes.
"These new units will help those areas we know have particular access issues and are an important part of our overall aims for transforming perinatal mental health care."
Procurement for the MBU units should begin in Autumn 2016 and contracts awarded to allow work to begin by March 2017. Expressions of interest can be made on the eSourcing portal here.
As many as one in five women experience mental ill health during pregnancy or in the year after birth, including depression, anxiety or post-partum psychosis. This affects around two in every 1,000 new mothers, with suicide being the second leading cause of maternal death after cardiovascular disease.
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NHS To Invest In New Units For Mothers
NHS England has confirmed it is to invest in three new units for mothers with serious mental ill health. The inpatient units will offer help to women to stay with their babies.The Mother and Baby Units (MBUs) will be located in East Anglia – Cambridgeshire, Norfolk and Suffolk; the North West – Cumbria and Lancashire; and the South West – Cornwall, Devon and Somerset.
They will provide in-patient support for women and their babies with severe needs who require hospital care who are experiencing severe mental health crisis including conditions like post-partum psychosis.
Increasing capacity in these units is an element of NHS England's transformation programme for perinatal mental health services. This includes the creation of new units in areas with the most severe access issues, as well as reviewing capacity in existing units, with funding across a five-year period.
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The perinatal mental health programme also supports the ambitions of the wider Maternity Transformation Programme, which aims to deliver the vision set out in Better Births, a report of the National Maternity Review to improve maternity outcomes for women and their babies.
Commenting on the announcement, Dr Giles Berrisford, NHS England's Associate Director for Perinatal Mental Health, said: "We know there is variation across the country in access to services for mums who need care for severe mental health problems.
"Sometimes an inpatient stay is the most appropriate treatment for a mum and mother and baby units enable women to stay with their babies at this important time, which helps achieve the best outcomes.
"These new units will help those areas we know have particular access issues and are an important part of our overall aims for transforming perinatal mental health care."
Procurement for the MBU units should begin in Autumn 2016 and contracts awarded to allow work to begin by March 2017. Expressions of interest can be made on the eSourcing portal here.
As many as one in five women experience mental ill health during pregnancy or in the year after birth, including depression, anxiety or post-partum psychosis. This affects around two in every 1,000 new mothers, with suicide being the second leading cause of maternal death after cardiovascular disease.
(JP/MH)
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