Perinatal Mental Health Toolkit Launched

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The Royal College of General Practitioners has launched a new Perinatal Mental Health Toolkit designed to support GPs and other healthcare professionals as a go-to collation of resources that could support them to deliver the care their patients with perinatal mental health conditions need. 

But the Toolkit isn't just for GPs. It contains plenty of patient and even partner resources including APP's Insider Guides and Peer Support Service. 

Dr Carrie Ladd, RCGP Clinical Fellow for Perinatal Mental Health, and lead on the PMH toolkit, said it "has been developed in consultation with women who have had perinatal mental health problems, and we hope it will give them the confidence to approach health professionals, and be better informed about their choices and what they should expect."

APP Chair, Dr Giles Berrisford gave a keynote presentation at the launch talking about NHS England's strategy for transforming perinatal mental health. Following the hashtag #PMHtoolkit on Twitter showed how positively the Toolkit is being received and a sense of optimism about the future of perinatal mental health services. 

Find out more, take a look at the Perinatal Mental Health Toolkit on the RCGP website