Mental health services are concluded after birth throughout the country due to a lack of financing despite record numbers of women who seek help, Independent It can reveal.
One in five of 600,000 women annually who are born in the UK suffers from mental health, NHS numbers – and a quarter has a negative birth experience.
Mental health conditions are the main cause of the death of mothers between six weeks and a year after birth-where one in three deaths represent, according to the MBBRACE-UK group led by Oxford University, which records all mandate deaths and children in the United Kingdom.
Suicide rates increased by more than 50 percent during the epidemic and have been high since then. Between 2017 and 2019, the suicide rate was 0.46 per 100,000 or gave birth to that period, but between 2021 and 2023 – the latest available numbers – a rate of 0.70 per 100,000 mm.
Although 57,000 new mothers and events reached NHS mental health services in 2023 – an increase of a third in the previous year – there is still a postal code to reach NHS treatment. A report issued by the Mental Health Alliance found last year that some women are waiting for up to six months for evaluation and up to a year for treatment.
But in January, the government announced that it had been put out funding for the launch of women’s health centers worldwide, which aims to improve access to services such as mental health support surrounding childbirth.
“This is the completely neglected mental health crisis, very widely,” Danny Chambers, a LIB Dem spokesman, warned against mental health, in February.
Now, many charitable societies have been forced to support NHS, by helping parents who are unable to access NHS or stuck in waiting lists, to close or suspend services due to financing discounts.
Charitable managers have warned against financing the support of mothers “descending”, especially in recent years, as competition for grants has become increasingly competitive.
A member of the Finance Council told one of the charitable directors: “Mothers will not be a priority.”
The charitable institutions that closed the Bluebell Care Trust, which managed the support services surrounding the birth of thousands of mothers and parents in Bristol, Bath, Glosstroshire, Somers and Devon -, many of whom were referred directly by NHS services. She entered the liquidation in late 2023, with its latest accounts that offer £ 52,000 in money.
Maggie Gordon-Walker is the founder of the Sussex Charity Mothers. It supports mothers from all aspects of life, including those who suffer from childbirth shock who usually face waiting for more than a year to extract birth information on NHS. But last year, they had to stop the support groups after losing financing.
The charity was applied to about 50 financing schemes, but only obtained a handful of handcuffs. “Unfortunately, mothers are rarely seen as worth financing-they are not a priority. We often get funding for the group of young mothers because they still consider” children “,” said Ms. Gordon Walker.
East London, East London, had to close it earlier this year because it was no longer able to withstand the annual operating costs of 5,000 pounds.
More than 200 women have supported them eight years ago by mothers Jima Kabuki and Milli Richards, who have struggled with their mental health after birth and wanted to prevent other women.
They have applied for five or six local authority, but they were rejected by everyone.
Ms. Richards said: “When you support my mother, you only change their lives, you change the lives of their children and their partner, and enable them to care for others – with great access,” said Ms. Richards.
Ms. Kabuki added: “I think some people see these groups just a” coffee morning “for mothers, when we actually help women refer to mental health support, we support those who are waiting for treatment – we have worked with women who say we have saved their lives literally.”
Groups like Motherly Love feels that the system is stacked against them. Mothers often run them on a voluntary basis, they are struggling to complete the time -consuming grants to the budget of their volunteer work as well as care for their families and do jobs.
But without them, there is no support for mothers like Anna, who tried to end her life a year after the birth of her daughter, and she was afraid to ask the professionals to help. She said: “I loved my daughter, but I was very miserable.
She said, “I was terrified that someone would take my child away from me if I got out.” She believes that a regular contact with support workers would have helped.
She added: “If I had a prescribed examination in the diaries with someone who could gently take depression after birth, then he could have saved me.”
Labor Representative Laura Kirk Smith lost her friend Sophie because of suicide after birth and led a discussion of the mother’s mental health in Westminster Hall. She said: “Since I lost my friend Sophie to commit suicide, I was aware of the mother’s mental health challenges, but they have not received little attention.”
She added that the government is actively working to prevent suicide “but there is always more to do it.”
“The government has begun in transformative work to improve the health of the country, and to achieve the best mental health results, it must be part of this plan,” she said.
A spokesman for the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare said: “Many women receive the safe, emotional, and personal maternity they deserve,” said a spokesman for the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare.
“Through our plan for change, we increase the standards, and train thousands of midwives and mental health workers, and we have provided mental services throughout the specialized society in all areas of England.
“We also invest 126 million pounds in family centers and start life services – which include mental health support – to help parents through pregnancy until early childhood.”
If you suffer from feelings of distress, or struggle to overcome them, you can talk to the Samaritans, with confidence, in 116 123 (UK and the return on investment), send an email to Jo@samaritans.org Samaritans Web site to find details of your nearest branch.