Work starts on ward for depressed mums
‘Work has begun on a new hospital ward for mums suffering post-natal depression.
The Mother and Baby Unit at St John’s Hospital in Livingston will treat around 40 women suffering puerperal psychosis - the most extreme and potentially damaging form of post-natal depression - when it opens later this year.
It will allow mothers suffering the condition to take their babies into the hospital ward with them for the first time.
The work, which began on Monday, is being carried out to bring NHS Lothian into line with the new Mental Health Act, which came into force last October.
It states that health authorities should provide facilities that allow most mothers who go to hospital with post-natal depression to take their baby with them.’
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