The Royal College of Midwives has published a roadmap to ensure women receive the support they need and to improve perinatal mental health care in the UK.
Among the key changes the RCM is calling for to improve perinatal mental health care in the UK are:
- All professionals working with women in the perinatal period have the necessary knowledge and understanding of perinatal mental health.
- Every maternity service has a minimum whole-time equivalent Band 7 perinatal specialist midwife.
- All maternity professionals should be equally concerned with mental as well as physical health in pregnancy, childbirth, and postnatal period.