Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many women had post-natal depression in the UK in each of the last five years.
We do not hold data on the number of women suffering from postnatal depression centrally.
Postnatal depression encompasses a range of diagnoses from anxiety and depression to the more severe puerperal psychosis, with symptoms occurring a few weeks or months after birth. Postnatal depression may be diagnosed by different health professionals such as midwives, health visitors or general practitioners seeing women in different settings and using different information systems.