Pregnancy: Mental Health Services
(asked on 11th November 2022) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many Integrated Care Boards commission specialist perinatal mental health services.
Answered by
Maria Caulfield
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
Since April 2019, there has been a specialist community perinatal mental health (PMH) service in every integrated care service area of England. The NHS Long Term Plan committed to transform specialist PMH services, to ensure at least 66,000 women can access specialist perinatal mental health services every year by 2023/24. Through the Family Hubs and Start for Life programme, we are also investing £100 million in PMH and parent-infant relationships support. This will be available in the 75 eligible local authorities.