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<p>More than 10% of women experience perinatal mental health problems or mental illness
(i.e. during pregnancy or in the first postnatal year) and that is why improving diagnosis
and services for women with perinatal mental health problems is one of the Department’s
key objectives for maternity care.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Health Education
England is working to ensure that pre and post registration training in perinatal
mental health is available to enable specialist perinatal mental health staff to be
available to every birthing unit by 2017.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The following
table shows a count of delivery episodes with a primary or secondary diagnosis of
mental health problems for the years 2008-09 to 2012-13</p><p> </p><p /> <p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Finished
delivery episodes</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2008-09</p></td><td><p>6,723</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009-10</p></td><td><p>8,304</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010-11</p></td><td><p>12,690</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011-12</p></td><td><p>16,696</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012-13</p></td><td><p>19,841</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>
</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p>The term
’perinatal mental illness’ is not classifiable within the ICD-10 (International Classification
of Diseases) classification system used to identify diagnoses in the Hospital Episode
Statistics (HES) database, but codes do exist to classify mental and behavioural disorders
in pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>It should
be noted that this is not a count of people as the same person may have had more than
one admission episode within the same time period.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p>
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