I was delighted to give my keynote presentation at this conference, run by the excellent Healthcare Events.
http://www.healthcare-events.co.uk/
We heard about the pilot of the family-nurse partnership from Ann Rowe and Marie Livesey - hopefully we shall see more of this as the Child Heath Promotion Programme is rolled out. Professor Sharp spoke to us about looking at the identification and management of women at high risk of developing a perinatal mental health disorder.
Professor Ian Banks gave a very amusing but great reflection on Dads and the need to get males more involved in their own health care. It is so true that it tends to be females who take them to appointments. His books, designed in the same way as car manuals would be great gifts for new Dads.
http://www.ciao.co.uk/The_Haynes_Baby_Manual_Conception_to_Two_Years_Ian_Banks__6751982
Also have a look at www.malehealth.co.uk
to look at improving services for men.
The lively Dr Alain Gregoire challenged some of the issues raised in the NICE guidelines and commented that we still have women who are under-treated in the NHS with often a lack of full recovery. I have to agree with him and this is part of my passion to improve services.
Mr John Cape spoke about improving access to psychological therapies. Ruth Rothman gave a wonderful presentation on the scheme in Southeast Essex of developing peer support to improve maternal mental health - some great ideas.
Then Marjorie Finnigan gave a super report on the Salford Surestart Perinatal Mental Health Project. Only to end it by saying the funding has been stopped. Why, oh why does this have to happen? When will perinatal mental health health be placed on the core commissioning scale instead of project based? We all need to shout out about this!
The day ended with Emma and Chris Barker who shared their personal story of puerperal psychosis.
Dr Dave Tomson, who had chaired the NICE guidelines on antenatal and postnatal mental health, did a sterling job of letting this day run well. It was good to meet hm again - last time we met at a launch of the guidelines held at Tate Britain.
As always it was a pleasure to meet dedicated health professionals.
www.elainehanzak.co.uk
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