In-Patient Mother and Baby Sample Clauses

In-Patient Mother and Baby. Units In-Patient Mother and Baby Units undertake the assessment, care and treatment of women in late pregnancy and the postpartum period with serious mental illness that cannot be safely managed by Specialised Perinatal Community Psychiatric Teams. The infant is admitted with the mother. They provide appropriate facilities, treatments and interventions to meet the special needs of mothers and their infants including both physical and psychological care. They provide support, assistance and supervision to the mother so that the physical and emotional needs of the infant are met and promote the developing mother-infant relationship. In-Patient Mother and Baby Units provide care for emergency admissions 24 hours a day, 7 days a week (these are the majority of admissions). They are able to care for acute conditions including those detained under the Mental Health Act, without transferring mothers to other in-patient facilities (except in exceptional circumstances). They also accept planned admissions for less urgent but complex cases which cannot be managed in the community or by Adult Mental Health Services. In order to ensure a safe environment for the care of both mother and infant, In- Patient Mother and Baby Units are separate from other acute admission units, have controlled access and facilities that are not shared by other acute psychiatric admission units. In-Patient Mother and Baby Units will meet these and other Standards of the Royal College of Psychiatrists College Centre for Quality Improvement (CCQI) for In-Patient Mother and Baby Units which are necessary for 5 NHS England/C06/S/a