Issue details

The Health Visiting Service have piloted the use of a Me and My Baby (MaMB) tool to assess the mother-baby relationship and identify where additional support may be needed. They have found that a proportion of new parents would benefit from additional support below the specialist level of care provided by the existing perinatal mental health service. The Health Visiting service are ideally positioned to identify families where perinatal mental health needs are unmet though the utilisation of specialist public health nursing skills and the 5 mandated health checks they are contracted to carry out for all new parents in Doncaster.