Parents: Mental Health Services

(asked on 31st January 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many (a) mothers and (b) fathers have been treated for peri-natal mental health conditions in each of the last six years.


This question was answered on 3rd February 2017

A core objective of the NHS England Perinatal Mental Health programme is to improve data over the coming years.

In the interim, work has been undertaken to support the production of high quality data. The recent data collection highlighted that approximately 14,000 women accessed specialist perinatal mental health services (inpatient and community services) during 2015/16 (a 12%1 increase on admissions for Mother and Baby Units and a 19%1 increase for Community teams from 2014/15).

Whilst it is recognised that partners may experience a mental health problem, data is not currently collected for perinatal mental health conditions in fathers.

Note: 1 This figure is based on individual records and does not take account of complexity of case load; for example, some women may access more than one service.

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