Luciana Berger – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2016-01-21.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the number of additional perinatal specialist mental health practitioners that will be needed to meet the additional requirements set out in the Prime Minister’s speech on life chances of 11 January 2016.

Ben Gummer

Health Education England (HEE) is working closely with NHS England to better understand the future workforce commissioning requirements needed to deliver access for all to the right perinatal mental health services.

The HEE Perinatal Mental Health programme aims to ensure that the maternity workforce has access to the right skills and knowledge that will enable them to provide high quality perinatal mental health care from prevention through to treatment for women throughout pregnancy, birth and the postnatal period. This includes partnership working with stakeholders to meet multi professional education and training requirements.