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The Everyone’s Business Campaign

  • Submitted by: Clare Haughey, Rutherglen, Scottish National Party.
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 14 February 2018
  • Submitting member has a registered interest.

  • Motion reference: S5M-10464
  • Current status: Taken in the Chamber on Thursday, 17 May 2018

That the Parliament welcomes the introduction to Scotland of the campaign, Everyone’s Business; notes that this campaign calls for all women who experience perinatal mental health problems to receive the care that they and their families need; understands that more than 1 in 10 women develop a mental illness during pregnancy or within the first year after having a child, and these illnesses include antenatal depression, postnatal depression, anxiety, perinatal obsessive compulsive disorder, postpartum psychosis and post-traumatic stress disorder; believes that such mental illness often goes unrecognised, undiagnosed and untreated and that this can have a devastating impact on the women and their families; understands that the availability of specialist provision is varied, meaning that specific care may not be readily available across the whole of the UK; welcomes the Scottish Government’s Mental Health Strategy 2017-2027, which includes a commitment to fund the introduction of a managed clinical network that will aim to bring together health professionals in order to improve recognition and treatment in Rutherglen and across Scotland, and notes the campaign’s aim, which is to ensure that all women who experience such problems receive appropriate care, wherever and whenever they need it.


Supported by: Clare Adamson, Colin Beattie, Alex Cole-Hamilton, James Dornan, Kenneth Gibson, Jenny Gilruth, Ross Greer, Bill Kidd, Richard Lyle, Fulton MacGregor, Rona Mackay, Ben Macpherson, Ruth Maguire, Gillian Martin, John Mason, Joan McAlpine, Ivan McKee, Stuart McMillan, Gil Paterson, Ash Regan, Gail Ross, Stewart Stevenson, David Torrance, Sandra White