Pioneering Hospital Unit Wins Award

SCOTLAND’S first mother and baby mental health service, based at Glasgow’s Southern General Hospital, has won a team award in this year’s Nursing Times’ Scottish Evidence into Practice Awards.

The Perinatal Mental Health Team was one of five winners announced by Health Minister Andy Kerr at the Nursing Times Live Exhibition at the city’s Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre.

Officially launched last October, the GBP1.3million six bed unit is staffed by 24 health professionals.

It enables mothers to stay with their babies while they undergo treatment for a range of mental illnesses, including postnatal depression and puerperal psychosis (a severe postnatal mental illness).

The GBP1000 prize will be invested in future training.