Maternal mental health: The changes your feedback made possible

Your experiences of maternal mental health care continue to shape NHS services, with NHS England recently announcing improvements to maternity and neo-natal services.
Woman who has just given birth looking at her newborn baby

In recent years across the Healtwatch network we have seen multiple shocking systemic failures in maternity services, outlined in the Ockenden review and seen at Shrewsbury and Telford NHS Trust and East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust, among others. These reviews highlight  increasingly negative feedback on maternity services shared via local Healthwatch including here in B&NES.

Healthwatch England have carried out new research on maternal mental health.   Read more about it here Maternal mental health: The changes your feedback made possible | Healthwatch