Routine Outcome Monitoring in Specialist Perinatal Mental Health Services
For the mother, the family and the baby, the impact of untreated perinatal mental illnesses are beyond doubt. Successive confidential enquiries into maternal deaths have shown that suicide and perinatal mental illnesses are amongst the leading causes of maternal death in the UK. Untreated perinatal mental illnesses may not only result in increased mortality but also in huge morbidity, affecting the whole family. We also know that this can be avoidable, as robust, evidence-based treatments are available for these conditions.
Routine outcome monitoring is an important element of patient centred care and, when used fully and consistently, enables effective treatment and high-quality services development.
This manual, with a foreword by NHS England, provides tools, tips and information to help Specialist Perinatal Mental Health Services (SPMHS) work through key elements of implementation.
Implementing routine outcome monitoring manual
