NBHC Care Experience
May 08, 2018
NHS England aims to make mental health services for new and expectant mothers in underserved parts of the country accessible within a year. NHS suggests only 3% of the country had good access to perinatal mental healthcare as recently as 2014, but it expects to extend this to 100% by 2019. Additional funding will put into effect a second wave of community perinatal services as part of a wider package of measures aimed at providing care to 30,000 more women by 2021. A 2017 study showed that only 7% of women who experienced a perinatal mental health condition were referred to specialist care, with some of those having to wait up to a year to receive treatment.