Pregnancy: Mental Health

(asked on 30th October 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many women with a maternal mental health condition have been transferred out-of-area for specialist treatment (a) nationally, (b) from York to Leeds and (c) from York to elsewhere in each of the last three years.


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Jackie Doyle-Price Portrait
Jackie Doyle-Price
This question was answered on 2nd November 2017

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Promoting good maternal and perinatal mental health is a key priority for NHS England, with its importance reflected in both the NHS England Better Births document and the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health, both of which are attached.

NHS England and its partners are working on an ambitious programme to increase capacity and capability in specialist perinatal mental health services across England so that more women can access appropriate, high-quality specialist mental health care, closer to home, when they need it during the perinatal period, both in the community and in inpatient Mother and Baby Units. This transformation is backed by £365 million investment from the Department between 2015/16 and 2020/21.

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