Meetings

Perinatal Mental Health – Follow-up

This page gives details of any meetings held which will, or did, discuss the matter, and includes links to the relevant Papers, Agendas and Minutes.

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Meeting: 14/07/2021 - Children, Young People and Education Committee (Item 3)

3 Perinatal mental health

 

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Meeting: 17/09/2020 - Children, Young People and Education Committee - Fifth Senedd (Item 6)

6 Letter from the Maternal Mental Health Alliance to the Chair of the Children, Young People and Education Committee regarding the follow up work that the Committee has been undertaking on its inquiry into perinatal mental health in Wales

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Meeting: 19/03/2020 - Children, Young People and Education Committee - Fifth Senedd (Item 7)

Perinatal Mental Health - Follow-up: consideration of the draft letter - POSTPONED


Meeting: 26/02/2020 - Children, Young People and Education Committee - Fifth Senedd (Item 2)

2 Perinatal Mental Health: Follow-up - evidence session 1

Sian Harrop-Griffiths, Director of Planning and Strategy - Swansea Bay University Health Board

Hazel Powell, Unit Nurse Director, Mental Health and Learning Disability Services -  Swansea Bay University Health Board

Dr Alberto Salmoiraghi, Consultant Psychiatrist and Medical Director for Mental Health and Learning Disabilities - Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board

Dr Annmarie Schmidt, Consultant Psychiatrist - Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board

Carole Bell, Director of Nursing – Welsh Health Specialised Services Committee

Carl Shortland, Senior Planner in Mental Health - Welsh Health Specialised Services Committee

 

 

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Minutes:

2.1 The Committee heard evidence from Swansea Bay University Health Board, Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board and WHSCC.


Meeting: 26/02/2020 - Children, Young People and Education Committee - Fifth Senedd (Item 6)

Perinatal Mental Health: Follow-up - consideration of the evidence

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6.1 The Committee considered the evidence heard during the evidence sessions and agreed to write to the Minister for Health and Social Services with its findings.


Meeting: 26/02/2020 - Children, Young People and Education Committee - Fifth Senedd (Item 3)

3 Perinatal Mental Health: Follow-up - evidence session 2

Sharon Fernandez, National Clinical Lead for Perinatal Mental Health – NHS Wales Health Collaborative

Joanna Jordan, National Programme Director for Mental Health – NHS Wales Health Collaborative

 

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Minutes:

3.1 The Committee heard evidence from the NHS Wales Health Collaborative.

3.2 The National Clinical Lead for Perinatal Mental Health agreed to provide a note on the following:

·         how many of the recently trained Perinatal and Infant Mental Health Champions are Welsh speakers;

·         the total number of Royal College of Psychiatrists’ (RCPsych) quality standards that are currently in place.

 


Meeting: 26/02/2020 - Children, Young People and Education Committee - Fifth Senedd (Item 4)

4 Letter from the Minister for Health and Social Services - update on the development of mother and baby inpatient provision within Wales

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Meeting: 26/02/2020 - Children, Young People and Education Committee - Fifth Senedd (Item 4)

4 Letter from the NSPCC regarding the follow up work that the Committee is undertaking on perinatal mental health in Wales

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Meeting: 08/01/2020 - Children, Young People and Education Committee - Fifth Senedd (Item 4)

4 Letter from the Deputy Minister for Health and Social Services - Update on Perinatal Mental Health

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Meeting: 24/10/2019 - Children, Young People and Education Committee - Fifth Senedd (Item 5)

5 Perinatal Mental Health - Follow-up - consideration of the October update from the Welsh Government

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Minutes:

5.1 The Committee considered the update from the Minister. It agreed the following:

·         to invite the National Clinical Lead to give evidence at a formal committee meeting;

·         to invite WHSSC and a representative from Swansea Bay University Health Board and Betsi Cadwaladr University Heath to give evidence at a formal committee meeting;

·         to request a Chair’s Plenary statement under Standing Order 12.50 (iv) at an appropriate future date to draw progress to the Assembly’s attention.


Meeting: 16/10/2019 - Children, Young People and Education Committee - Fifth Senedd (Item 6)

6 Letter from the Minister for Health and Social Services - Update on Perinatal Mental Health

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Meeting: 06/06/2019 - Children, Young People and Education Committee - Fifth Senedd (Item 3)

3 Letter from the Chair to the Minister for Health and Social Services - Perinatal Mental Health in Wales: follow up scrutiny

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Meeting: 21/02/2019 - Children, Young People and Education Committee - Fifth Senedd (Item 4)

4 Letter from the Chair to the North Wales Perinatal team following evidence session on 10 January

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Meeting: 21/02/2019 - Children, Young People and Education Committee - Fifth Senedd (Item 4)

4 Letter to Darren Millar AM from the Minister for Health and Social Services - Perinatal mental health in Wales

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Meeting: 21/02/2019 - Children, Young People and Education Committee - Fifth Senedd (Item 4)

4 Letter from the Minister for Health and Social Services - additional information following the meeting on 10 January

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Meeting: 30/01/2019 - Children, Young People and Education Committee - Fifth Senedd (Item 2)

2 Letter from the North Wales Perinatal Mental Health Team - follow-up from the scrutiny session with the Minister for Health and Social Services on 10 January

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Meeting: 30/01/2019 - Children, Young People and Education Committee - Fifth Senedd (Item 2)

2 Letter from Chair to the Minister for Health and Social Services - follow-up from scrutiny session on 10 January

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Meeting: 10/01/2019 - Children, Young People and Education Committee - Fifth Senedd (Item 3)

3 Follow- up on the Perinatal Mental Health Committee Report

Vaughan Gething AM, Minister for Health and Social Services

Liz Davies, Senior Medical Officer, Welsh Government

Karen Jewell, Nursing Officer - Women's Reproductive Health, Welsh Government

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Minutes:

3.1 The Committee heard evidence from the Minister for Health and Social Services.

3.2 The Minister agreed to provide a note on the following:

·         The perinatal mental health data and information collected by Local Health Boards and the Welsh Government;

·         The number of women who have been placed due to perinatal mental ill health on an adult psychiatric ward without their child;

·         The timescales within which all Local Health Boards will be expected to have signed up to the Royal College of Psychiatrists’ quality standards; and

·         Further information on the directory of third sector services and how it is updated.

3.3 The Minister committed to providing:

·         at the end of the 2018-19 financial year, a comprehensive outline of the settings in which women have been treated for perinatal mental ill health, including in the community, adult psychiatric wards, and mother and baby units; and

·         six monthly updates on progress in relation to the Committee’s recommendations and other developments in perinatal mental health services in Wales.

 


Meeting: 08/11/2018 - Children, Young People and Education Committee - Fifth Senedd (Item 4)

4 Letter from the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Service - Perinatal Mental Health 12 Month update

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