The Maternal Mental Health Alliance’s Everyone’s Business Campaign calls for all women and birthing people across the UK to receive the mental health care they and their families need during pregnancy and postnatally, as described in the following national guidelines and recommendations:
The MMHA Resource Hub contains essential reading for professionals working in perinatal mental health in the UK, including reports, guidance, online training, toolkits, case studies and more.
Our goal is to ensure all women, birthing people, babies and families impacted by perinatal mental illness can access high-quality, compassionate care and support. We aim to do this by:
Our campaigning focuses on closing gaps, improving access, and ensuring equitable, high-quality mental health support is embedded across the maternity and postnatal healthcare system.
The MMHA is committed to shining a light on the issues, circumstances and characteristics which can lead to disparity in outcomes and often have a profound impact on someone's risk of perinatal mental health problems and their experience of care.
Communicating the human and economic consequences of untreated perinatal mental health problems has been a powerful tool for influencing policymakers and decision makers within healthcare.