Labour MP to push for better maternal mental health care after friend’s suicide
Laura Kyrke-Smith says perinatal mental health care in England is ‘postcode lottery’, with disadvantaged women more likely to miss outA new Labour MP will address parliament on Wednesday to tell the story of a friend who killed herself just 10 weeks after giving birth, in a call for more specific mental health support to be embedded in maternity services.Laura Kyrke-Smith, the MP for Aylesbury, told the Guardian she was determined to use her time in parliament to push for change in memory of her friend Sophie, a mother of three young girls, who died when her youngest was just over two months old. Continue reading...
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Laura Kyrke-Smith says perinatal mental health care in England is ‘postcode lottery’, with disadvantaged women more likely to miss out
A new Labour MP will address parliament on Wednesday to tell the story of a friend who killed herself just 10 weeks after giving birth, in a call for more specific mental health support to be embedded in maternity services.
Laura Kyrke-Smith, the MP for Aylesbury, told the Guardian she was determined to use her time in parliament to push for change in memory of her friend Sophie, a mother of three young girls, who died when her youngest was just over two months old. Continue reading...
