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Chair’s Welcome & Introduction: What it feels like to be in crisis and what helped me to keep on living: personal messages to inspire others’
Elaine Coote (Hanzak)
Author, Advocate and Speaker on perinatal mental health with lived experience
• a personal perspective
• what it feels like as a new mum to be in crisis
• what inspired me to keep on living
• supporting new mums during the Covid-19 Pandemic
Learning from MBRRACE-UK: Saving Lives, Improving Mothers Care Sharing the learning to improve services pre and during Covid-19
Prof Jenny Kurinczuk
Professor of Perinatal Epidemiology, Director
National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit (NPEU)
National Programme Lead
MBRRACE-UK/PMRT
• lessons learned from recent enquiries and reports
• learning from the 2020 report focusing on Covid-19 - Saving Lives, Improving Mothers’ Care rapid report
• high risk factors: learning from suicides after a pregnancy or postnatal loss, or after removal of their infant into care
• identifying warning signs and red flags