FINDING THE RIGHT SUPPORT FOR YOU
Here are some useful contacts if you have any worries about your health and wellbeing:
If you need to speak with someone urgently or if there is immediate risk of serious harm or injury:
- Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) call the 24-hour support hotline – 0800 731 2864 or visit https://www.nhs.uk/service-search/find-a-psychological-therapies-service/
- The Samaritans – call 116 123 or visit https://www.samaritans.org/
- Mind – call 0300 123 3393 or visit https://www.mind.org.uk/
- UK Emergency Services – call 999 or 111
- Attend your local Accident and Emergency (A&E) Department
IT’S GOOD TO TALK
Additional contacts for parents:
- Your General Practitioner (GP), Health Visitor (HV) or Community Midwife (CMW)
- Your local IAPT services – https://www.nhs.uk/service-search/find-a-psychological-therapies-service/
- Antenatal Results and Choices (ARC) – https://www.arc-uk.org/
- Cocoon Family Support – https://cocoonfamilysupport.org/
- Family Action – https://www.family-action.org.uk/
- Fathers Reaching Out – http://www.reachingoutpmh.co.uk/
- Hub of Hope – https://hubofhope.co.uk/
- Mind – https://www.mind.org.uk/information-support/types-of-mental-health-problems/postnatal-depression-and-perinatal-mental-health/perinatal-anxiety/
- National Childbirth Trust (NCT) – https://www.nct.org.uk/