Discover a wealth of resources designed to help you support women and families impacted by perinatal mental health problems. Whether you work in healthcare, local or national government we hope you find what you need.
We are in the process of updating the Hub, so if you have a resource to add or think something is missing, please email info@maternalmentalhealthalliance.org.
NHS England Pdf, 960.8kb
Published: July 2019
The NHS Long Term Plan renewed the NHS' commitment to pursue an ambitious transformation of mental health care in England. The Mental Health Implementation Plan provides a new framework to ensure they deliver on this commitment at the local level.
CYPMHC X MMHA Pdf, 191.4kb
Published: October 2023
Support for young mums aged 16-25 has been notably absent from the policy agenda in recent years. Whilst efforts have been focused on reducing the number of teenage pregnancies, less attention has been paid to the support needs of young mums and historically young parenthood has been framed as a problem.
NHS Scotland Pdf
Published: February 2024
This guideline has been produced using methodology to adopt and adapt recommendations from other high-quality guidelines (see section 9). The majority of recommendations are adapted from the Centre of Perinatal Excellence (COPE): Mental Health Care in the Perinatal Period: Australian Clinical Practice guideline, 2023.
None Pdf, 7.6mb
Published: December 2019
A summary poster depicting the five principles of perinatal peer support. The Perinatal Peer Support Principles were co-designed by people with lived experience, maternal mental health and maternity professionals, organisations facilitating peer support, Mind and the McPin Foundation.
Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust Pdf, 1.5mb
Published: January 2015
This booklet is for women with postnatal depression (PND) and their friends and family. It aims to help identify PND, explain the possible causes, help you consider the best way to help yourself and signpost you to other support.
Perinatal Quality Network Pdf, 733.3kb
Published: January 2022
These standards are designed to be applicable to mother and baby units and can be used by professionals to assess the quality of the team. The standards may also be of interest to commissioners, patients, carers, researchers and policy makers.
