Mental health and wellbeing in primary care services: resources
This resource has been developed to support staff working in general practice. It is intended to help all staff contribute to the link worker function within the Services, by providing a directory of additional sources of help and support, that people can be connected in with.
13. Perinatal and Parent Support
13.1 Ready Steady Baby
Advice on health and wellbeing, including relationships and mental health is available at NHS inform, Ready, Steady, Baby.
13.2 The Women and Families Maternal Mental Health Pledge
The Pledge was developed by women with lived experience and sets out expectations around perinatal mental health care. There is more information at NHS inform.
13.3 The Scottish Perinatal Mental Health Care Pathways
The Scottish Perinatal Mental Health Care Pathways have been developed to help women, their infants and families, access the most appropriate specialist perinatal and infant mental health care should they require it. This care should be available wherever a woman lives in Scotland. For referrers and service providers, they should help guide the development of pathways into care which are responsive to the needs of their local population and service organisation.
13.4 The Voice of the Infant Best Practice Guidelines and Infant Pledge
The Best Practice Guidance explains how to take account of infants’ views and rights in all encounters they may have with professionals in statutory or third sector services.
The Infant Pledge sets out what infants should expect from those around them. It encourages mindful commitment to facilitate infants to express their feelings, and to consider their views, uphold their rights and take action accordingly.
More information about the Voice of the Infant Best Practice Guidelines and Infant Pledge, can be found here.
13.5 Perinatal and Infant Mental Health Third Sector Service Directory
The Perinatal and Infant Mental Health (PIMH) fund is designed to deliver key services and address gaps in provision through supporting charities providing parenting support and other types of one-to-one and group based support for parents and families who are experiencing mild to moderate mental health concerns during pregnancy and for the first three years of infancy.
The PIMH Third Sector Service Directory is a repository of PIMH services across Scotland which can be filtered by area or service required.
13.6 Parent Club
Parent Club a national resource which is linked to the baby box scheme and Ready Steady Baby, resources that all new parents are provided with if they wish. Parent Club is tailored for new mums, expectant parents and parents, providing advice on how they can support their own mental health and wellbeing, as well as how they can support the wellbeing of their babies and children. The Wellbeing for Wee Ones Hub on the Parent Club website supports parents to gain an understanding of their infant’s emotional and mental wellbeing from an early stage.
The platform also provides signposting to other supports and services, and a link to free antenatal Solihull training for parents, to support mental health, mindfulness and attachment in pregnancy and postnatal. This resource is signposted from various websites and is available through web searches.
13.7 Solihull Online
Solihull Online is a resource which provides additional support for parents aimed at improving parent-child relationships, managing problematic behaviour and promoting positive mental health. Free online access is available for every parent in Scotland with a child between 0-19 years old. It will allow for a 24 month registration period plus lifetime access after that. The resource can be accessed here and enter the code word ‘tartan’.
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