Luciana Berger – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2015-10-20.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many in-patient mother and baby units specialising in psychiatric care during the perinatal period there were in (a) 2010 and (b) the latest year for which figures are available; and which such units were open in (i) 2010 and (ii) the latest year for which figures are available.

Alistair Burt

The number and location of mother and baby units in 2010 and 2015, as supplied by NHS England, are detailed in the tables.

Mother and Baby Units open in 2010:

1. Newcastle Beadnell Ward, St George’s Park, Morpeth, Northumberland
2. Leeds Mother and Baby Unit, Leeds Partnership Foundation Trust
3. Manchester Anderson Ward, Wythenshawe Hospital
4. Nottingham Perinatal Psychiatric Services, Perinatal Inpatient Unit
5. Derby Mother and Baby Psychiatric Unit, Derby City General, Uttoxeter Rd, Derby
6. Leicester Mother and Baby Unit, Brandon Unit, Leicester General Hospital (closed 2014)
7. Stafford Brockington Mother and Baby Unit, St George’s Hospital Foundation
8. Birmingham Mother and Baby Unit, Queen Elizabeth Hospital
9. Welwyn Garden Thumbswood, Queen Elizabeth II Hospital, Howlands, Welwyn
10. Hackney Mother and Baby Unit, Mermaid Ward, City and Hackney Centre for Mental Health, Homerton Hospital, Homerton Row
11. North Middlesex Coombe Wood Perinatal Mental Health Unit, Coombe Wood Annexe, Park Royal Centre for Mental Health
12. Beckenham Mother and Baby Unit, Bethlem Royal Hospital, Monks Orchard Rd, Beckenham, Kent
13. Bristol New Horizon Mother and Baby Centre, Southmead Hospital
14. Basingstoke Fairways House, Parklands Hospital (Moved to Winchester in 2013)
15. The Eastbourne Clinic Mother and Baby Unit, Eastbourne, East Sussex (this unit was open in 2010 but not referenced in report closed 2014)
16. Mother and Baby Unit, Godden Green Clinic, Godden Green, Sevenoaks, Kent (closed in 2010)
17. York Mother and Baby Unit, Bootham Park Hospital (closed temporarily in 2010 and remained closed)

Source: National Perinatal Mental Health Project Report 2010

Mother and Baby units open in 2015

1. Beadnell Mother and Baby Unit, Morpeth
2. Leeds Partnership NHS Foundation Trust Mother and Baby Unit
3. Manchester Mother and Baby Unit
4. Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust Perinatal Psychiatric Services
5. Derby Mother and Baby Unit, Derby City General
6. Brockington Mother and Baby Unit, St. George’s Hospital, Stafford
7. Barberry Mother and Baby Unit, Birmingham
8. Thumbswood Mother and Baby Unit, Welwyn
9. Rainbow Mother and Baby Unit, Chelmsford (new unit opened 2013)
10. Margaret Oates Mother and Baby Unit, Homerton Hospital
11. Coombe Wood Mother and Baby Unit, Coombe Wood, London
12. South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust Mother and Baby Unit
13. The New Horizon Mother and Baby Centre, Southmead Hospital, Bristol
14. Winchester Mother and Baby Unit, Royal Hampshire County Hospital
15. Florence House Mother and Baby unit, Bournemouth (new unit opened 2013)

Source: NHS England National ERG Report 2015