PQN news and events
The next PQN Annual Forum will take place on 15 November 2024, 9.30am-5.30pm.
Venue: Royal College of Psychiatrists, London
Price: £75 for members, £110 for non-members of the PQN network
Registration for this event is now closed.
The PQN team regularly holds accreditation training which covers what an accreditation review is, how to prepare for it as a service being reviewed, and how to prepare for it as a reviewer.
For further information about these events, please contact the PQN project team at perinatal-chat@rcpsych.ac.uk.
Planning for our next Special Interest Day is underway. We'll be publishing the date of next year's Special Interest Day here shortly. This event will take place via Zoom.
- Free for all staff from PQN member services
- £80 for non-members
For more information, please email perinatal-chat@rcpsych.ac.uk.
We're very excited to announce the return of the PQN Art Competition!
We are looking for artwork submissions from mothers either currently accessing your services, or who have been recently discharged. The art competition is a great activity to get mothers involved in. Submissions can be in the form of any visual art that you can scan/take a photo of to email to us, such as paintings, drawings, photography, digital art etc.
The first prize is a £20 gift voucher and second prize is a £10 gift voucher. The winning piece will also be published across the front pages on PQN publications and reports for our next review cycles.
Please send all artwork submissions with the owner's first name and artwork title to perinatal-chat@rcpsych.ac.uk by the deadline Friday 01 October 2024. Please ensure you do not include the full name of patients on the submissions, and obtain consent for their first name and artwork title to be displayed.
Webinar #4 - Tuesday 15 September 2020
This webinar was jointly presented by perinatal mental health teams based in Staffordshire and West London. They talked about how they have been running online psychological interventions and discussed the logistics of their programme.
Webinar #3 - Thursday 23 July 2020
This webinar was hosted by Sarah Owens, a Community Perinatal Peer Support Worker from the Surrey and Borders Perinatal Mental Health Service. Sarah talked about how to cope with COVID-19 in a Perinatal Community Team.
Webinar #2 - Monday 22 June 2020
This webinar was presented by Mark Williams, an International Campaigner who is passionate about paternal mental health and why supporting all parents for their mental health will have far better outcomes for the family and the development of the child. He founded International Fathers' Mental Health Day and the #Howareyoudad campaign, for better services for new dads.
Webinar #1 - Thursday 28 May 2020
Hosted by Hayley Grainger, Nursery Nurse from the Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust.
The webinar covered navigating the COVID-19 risk and worries with mothers, and addressed some perinatal nursery nurse concerns regarding COVID-19 and highlight possible impacts of COVID-19 on the mother and infant.
You can access recordings of all our webinars on the dedicated CCQI Webinars page.