women-centred (including the ability for women to self-refer to mental health services for triaged assessment and the provision of opportunities to visit maternity facilities and meet staff pre-birth should a woman be concerned about birth or be experiencing mental health or addiction issues) coordinated and engages with a wide of service providers involved in maternal mental health care (including primary care, well child services, and representatives of all DHB departments involved in maternity services or caring for mothers and babies – including mental health services) DHB-wide: all-department meetings are held to discuss maternal mental health issues consistently applying a standardised screening tool (in this case, the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale), which has included health practitioner training, and providing ongoing leadership: the establishment of a pathway and appointment of dedicated FTE is only the first step. The changes we expect to see next We expect all DHBs to be planning how and preparing for movement into the “established” tier. This pathway should be described in the MQSP Annual Report. “excelling” We encourage the Ministry of Health to support promotion of Taranaki DHB’s implementation of its maternal mental health pathway as it demonstrates a good approach on how to embed the mental health as a core maternity service. We expect all DHBs to continue to monitor the implementation of maternal mental health pathways. We expect that all DHB MQSP coordinators continue to be supported with dedicated time to complete their coordination role rather than fitting this important work around other clinical or administrative roles. Review key sector publications including the Report on Maternity Our for 2015/16 was to review key maternity sector publications and accompanying data tables to provide advice on the findings and possible priorities for future action. Reviewing key sector publications and providing advice on the findings of reports is one of the key functions of the NMMG and one of the ways in which we contribute to continuous systems improvement. We have previously reviewed each Report on Maternity and provided advice on possible improvements: we expect to continue to do this. What we have done this year and our findings We reviewed the Ministry of Health’s Report on Maternity 2014.
women-centred (including the ability for women to self-refer to mental health services for triaged assessment and the provision of opportunities to visit maternity facilities and meet staff pre-birth should a woman be concerned about birth or be experiencing mental health or addiction issues) coordinated and engages with a wide of service providers involved in maternal mental health care (including primary care, well child services, and representatives of all DHB departments involved in maternity services or caring for mothers and babies – including mental health services) DHB-wide: all-department meetings are held to discuss maternal mental health issues consistently applying a standardised screening tool (in this case, the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale), which has included health practitioner training, and providing ongoing leadership: the establishment of a pathway and appointment of dedicated FTE is only the first step. The changes we expect to see next We expect all “established” DHBs to be planning how and preparing for movement into the “excelling” tier. This pathway should be described in the MQSP Annual Report. We encourage the Ministry of Health to support promotion of Taranaki DHB’s implementation of its maternal mental health pathway as it demonstrates a good approach on how to embed the mental health as a core maternity service. We expect all DHBs to continue to monitor the implementation of maternal mental health pathways. We expect that all DHB MQSP coordinators continue to be supported with dedicated time to complete their coordination role rather than fitting this important work around other clinical or administrative roles. Review key sector publications including the Report on Maternity Our for 2015/16 was to review key maternity sector publications and accompanying data tables to provide advice on the findings and possible priorities for future action. Reviewing key sector publications and providing advice on the findings of reports is one of the key functions of the NMMG and one of the ways in which we contribute to continuous systems improvement. We have previously reviewed each Report on Maternity and provided advice on possible improvements: we expect to continue to do this. What we have done this year and our findings We reviewed the Ministry of Health’s Report on Maternity 2014.
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