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Referral Criteria

Referrals are essential for women with current or previous:

• Bipolar Affective Disorder
• Schizophrenia / Schizoaffective disorder
• Previous postpartum psychosis
• Severe depression
• Other psychotic illness
• Family history of postpartum psychosis
• Mother and Baby Unit admission

These women should be referred even if they are currently well.

Referrals are also accepted for women with other severe or complex mental illness, including Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, eating disorders, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and Personality Disorder.

If a woman is prescribed a mood stabiliser please state this in the referral so that these women can be prioritised and urgent advice given regarding medication.

We work with women who cannot be effectively managed in primary care.

If a woman is already under the care of a community mental health team she should still be referred so we can work jointly with this team.

If the woman is a psychiatric inpatient during pregnancy or the postnatal period she should be referred so that we can see her during admission, ensure she has antenatal care if she is pregnant, and that she is followed up on discharge from the inpatient unit.

In cases where substance misuse is the primary problem please refer to specialist substance misuse services. We can work jointly with substance misuse services if the woman also has a severe mental illness.

Women under 18 years old can be referred to Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) and the Perinatal Mental Health Service will provide advice to CAMHS.

For more information about referrals please see our Perinatal and AFLoaT referral guidance

Referral Criteria

Referrals are essential for women with current or previous:

• Bipolar Affective Disorder
• Schizophrenia / Schizoaffective disorder
• Previous postpartum psychosis
• Severe depression
• Other psychotic illness
• Family history of postpartum psychosis
• Mother and Baby Unit admission

These women should be referred even if they are currently well.

Referrals are also accepted for women with other severe or complex mental illness, including Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, eating disorders, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and Personality Disorder.

If a woman is prescribed a mood stabiliser please state this in the referral so that these women can be prioritised and urgent advice given regarding medication.

We work with women who cannot be effectively managed in primary care.

If a woman is already under the care of a community mental health team she should still be referred so we can work jointly with this team.

If the woman is a psychiatric inpatient during pregnancy or the postnatal period she should be referred so that we can see her during admission, ensure she has antenatal care if she is pregnant, and that she is followed up on discharge from the inpatient unit.

In cases where substance misuse is the primary problem please refer to specialist substance misuse services. We can work jointly with substance misuse services if the woman also has a severe mental illness.

Women under 18 years old can be referred to Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) and the Perinatal Mental Health Service will provide advice to CAMHS. 

For more information about referrals please see our Perinatal and AFLoaT referral guidance

Referral Criteria

Usually people referred to our service will have had some brief intervention, either in primary care or CMHRS, before being referred to more specialist psychotherapy.