News
07 May 2013
Livingston Mother and Baby Unit has now been accredited as
excellent by the Perinatal Quality Network. Thumbswood Mother and
Baby Unit has also been awarded accreditation, bring the total
number of accredited services across the UK to 11. The
Perinatal Quality Network would like to congratulate these services
for their achievement.
The list of accredited mother and baby units is as follows:
Newly Accredited as excellent:
- Livingston Mother and Baby Unit
Newly Accredited
- Thumbswood Mother and Baby unit, Welwyn Garden City
Accredited as excellent
Accredited
- The Beeches, Derby
- Brockington Mother and Baby Unit, Stafford
- Leeds Mother and Baby Unit
- Margaret Oates Mother and Baby Unit, Hackney
- Margaret Oates Mother and Baby Unit, Nottingham
- Melbury Lodge, Winchester
15 April 2013
The Perinatal Team would like to welcome the
first group of Community Perinatal Mental Health Teams to join the
Network. The services that have signed up for community peer
reviews are:
- South London and Maudsley (SLAM) Community Perinatal
Services
- Newcastle and North Tyneside Perinatal Community Team
- Derbyshire Community Perinatal Service
- Livingston Perinatal Mentalh Health Service
- Hampshire Perinatal Mental Health
- Sheffield Perinatal Mental Health Team
- Leeds Community Perinatal Mental Health Service
- Nottingham Perinatal Community Team
30 October 2012
A further two services have now been accredited, bringing the
total to 9 accredited services:
Newly Accredited:
- Channi Kumar Mother and Baby Unit
- Glasgow Mother and Baby Unit
now join the other units:
Accredited as excellent
Accredited
- The Beeches, Derby
- Brockington Mother and Baby Unit, Stafford
- Leeds Mother and Baby Unit
- Margaret Oates Mother and Baby Unit, Hackney
- Margaret Oates Mother and Baby Unit, Nottingham
- Melbury Lodge, Winchester
2 August 2012
Introducing the new Perinatal
Community Standards
We're pleased to announce that our new
standards for community perinatal mental health services are now
available to download.
Perinatal
Community Standards 1st Edition
We will shortly begin reviewing services
against the standards using the same process as mother and baby
units have been engaged with since 2007. In our first year, we will
initially be working with services who:
1. Have more than one
discipline working into them
2. Have the primary
function of working with women experiencing mental ill health in
the perinatal period
If you would like your community services to be one
of the first in the country to be members of the network, please
fill in our joining
form.
As a special offer to services already participating in
our inpatient review process, if your community team also joins the
network, we will apply a 15% discount to your membership
fee.
To find out more information, please contact the team.
17 July 2012
Cycle 5 Perinatal Annual Forum, Wednesday 28th
November 2012
This year's Annual Forum will be held at:
Hallam Conference Centre
44 Hallam Street
London
W1W 6JJ
We are now accepting abstracts for workshops and presentations.
If you would like to find out more or submit your abstract, please
contact the team.
12 December 2011
The third edition of the inpatient standards is now
available:
Perinatal Inpatient
Standards 3rd Edition
17 November 2011
The fifth cycle of reviews has now begun and 17 mother and
baby units throughout the UK are participating this year -
more than ever before. More units will be working towards
accreditation over the coming year. Seven units were accredited
this year:
Accredited as excellent
Accredited
- The Beeches, Derby
- Brockington Mother and Baby Unit, Stafford
- Leeds Mother and Baby Unit
- Margaret Oates Mother and Baby Unit, Hackney
- Margaret Oates Mother and Baby Unit, Nottingham
- Melbury Lodge, Winchester
Congratulations to all the teams for their achievement.
20 December
2010
New mailbase discussion group for National Perinatal and
Infant Mental Health Network
At this time, perhaps more than ever before, having links with
others working in the field of maternal and perinatal mental health
is important, so as to ensure that we have access to collective
wisdom, experience and knowledge.
There are policy changes on the way in relation to the NHS (see
the White Paper for reference to maternity networks) and children’s
services as well as a challenging fiscal and organisational
agenda.
The Royal College of Psychiatrists’ Centre for
Quality Improvement has agreed to work with CHIMAT to bring members
of the national PIMH electronic network their own discussion
group.
The advantages this offers all network members
are:
- Provision of relevant timely advice from members to
members
- Easy to use method for professionals to share good practice and
solve problems as a multi-professional community
- Easily accessible way for policy teams to consult with
professionals and for professionals to advise and influence
policy
- Professionals can access mutual support if they wish by
establishing telephone and face to face contact
- Promotion of service improvement, leading to learning transfer
and successful implementation of service improvements
- Sharing and improving personal therapeutic and practice
skills
- A stepped approach supporting novice to expert
members
- Above all this network will enable all of you to support each
other
It’s a facility which the Royal College
already offers to mental health professionals via the FOCUS and
QNIC email discussion groups which are used nationally and
internationally.
This new mailbase will have a specific focus on Perinatal and
Infant Mental Health which we hope will attract a wide range of
people of varying professional backgrounds working with these
issues. Its being offered on a trial basis.
So, if you don’t use it, then you will
probably lose it and with it, a good opportunity to share
issues quickly and easily across wide range of colleagues.
So please join it, and then send some questions, opinions, or
requests to the other members. If each network member does this
once in the next 6 months that will generate nearly two questions a
day, and help to ensure its longevity.
To get involved, send an email to pimh@cru.rcpsych.ac.uk with
JOIN in the subject heading.
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