Strengthening perinatal mental health: A roadmap to the right support at the right time The Royal College of Midwives is warning that vital perinatal mental health support is on the precipice, as it launches a new ‘roadmap’ to ensure women receive the support they need and to improve perinatal mental health care in the UK.
Released today, ‘Strengthening perinatal mental health’ makes for sobering reading. One in five women will experience mental health issues during pregnancy and up to a year after birth, ranging from anxiety and depression to more significant illness. Furthermore, suicide remains one of the leading causes of death in new mothers up to the first year after giving birth. Despite this, it’s all too clear that mental health needs remain secondary to physical health needs of women during pregnancy in our NHS.
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