Samarjit Singh

23 May 2014 · Coroner Andre Rebello · Wirral

The coroner's concerns

1. lack of specialist perinatal mental health service
“There was no Specialist Community Perinatal Mental Health Service in the Wirral to meet both her son's and her needs. The treatment that was available was sub-optimal.”
2. absence of mother and baby perinatal mental health inpatient unit
“There is not a Mother and Baby Perinatal Mental health in-patient Unit in the Liverpool City Region serving the needs of Lancashire, Merseyside and East Cheshire. 50% of referrals from this area to the Manchester Unit decline because it is too far from family and support networks but more relevantly from older sibling children who remain in the family home”