Delivering Effective Services Report
Care Pathways
The Scottish Perinatal Mental Health Care Pathways have been developed to help women, their infants and families, access the most appropriate specialist perinatal and infant mental health care should they require it. This care should be available wherever a woman lives in Scotland. For referrers and service providers, they should help guide the development of pathways into care which are responsive to the needs of their local population and service organisation.
Accompanying videos for these can be found here – Access to Specialist Care in Scotland – Perinatal Mental Health Network Scotland
Role Definitions
These role definitions summarise the knowledge and skills which professionals working within specialist services (MBU, CPMHT, MNPI) should have, and the support which should be available to them in order to fulfil the requirements of their posts. They will be useful to NHS providers recruiting to new or expanding specialist services and can provide a benchmark for individuals who wish to work within perinatal mental health. They are not intended to replicate a full job description for individual posts, but should be seen as identifying the additional roles, responsibilities and supervisory requirements which are core to the delivery of specialist perinatal mental health care. Clinical staff would usually be expected to have the knowledge and skills at the ENHANCED or SPECIALIST level of the Perinatal Mental Health Curricular Framework, in keeping with their professional responsibilities.
Service Development Guides
Supporting Women, Reducing Harm
Supporting Women, Reducing Harm: Review of services for substance-using women and their infants in pregnancy and the postnatal period’ reports on work done by the Network in 2020 to identify current services and make recommendations for future provision. We see this report as the beginning of a process to design services for Scotland which will provide responsive, supportive and inclusive care for women who experience alcohol and drug use, their infants and families, and which reduces the risk of additional harm for women themselves, their infants and families.
Other Reports
