PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Pregnancy: Mental Health Services (30 October 2017)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what average waiting time after referral was for treatment of mental health challenges experienced in pregnancy and the first postnatal year in (a) York Central constituency, (b) Yorkshire and the Humber Region and (c) England in each year since 2010.

Asked by:
Rachael Maskell (Labour)

We do not currently hold data in the format requested.

Promoting good maternal and perinatal mental health is a key priority for NHS England, with its importance reflected in both the NHS England Better Births document and the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health, both of which are attached.

NHS England and its partners are working on an ambitious programme to increase capacity and capability in specialist perinatal mental health services across England so that more women can access appropriate, high-quality specialist mental health care, closer to home, when they need it during the perinatal period, both in the community and in inpatient Mother and Baby Units. This transformation is backed by £365 million investment from the Department between 2015/16 and 2020/21.

Answered by:
Dame Jackie Doyle-Price (Conservative)
2 November 2017