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9.45 Normal emotional changes, the baby blues and postnatal highs -Carol Henshaw
10.15 Postpartum Psychosis and Bipolar Disorder in the perinatal period  – Ian Jones 

10.45 BREAK

11.15 Identifying Postnatal Depression –  John Cox
11.45 The 2011 Confidential Enquiry into Maternal Deaths  – Margaret Oates
12.15 Considering BME issues in perinatal mental health care  – Dawn Edge

12.45 LUNCH

Chair: John Cox – Improving Perinatal Mental Health Care

1.30 Exercise and Postnatal Depression –  Amanda Daley
1.45 Peer support in postnatal mental illness – Sukhi Sembi
2.00 Perinatal mental illness, medication and the infant  – Joe McCleery
2.15 Predicting bipolar disorder relapse in the postpartum period  – Kathryn Doyle
2.30 Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in the postpartum  – Debbie Carrick Sen
2.45 Supporting fathers during perinatal admission  – Sarah Sandell

3.00 BREAK

3.30 Workshop Sessions
A: Ethical issues in perinatal mental health care – What about dad?
Giles Berrisford, Heather Draper, Mary McGuinness, Geoff Allcock

B: The campaign for Mother and Baby Units – What can we do?
Renuka Lazarus, Caroline Carr, Nicola Muckelroy, Jess Heron

C: Supporting children: parenting, safeguarding & infant massage session.
 Jenny Whitmore, Marjorie Allen, Hayley Grainger, TBC.

4.30 Closing remarks & action points: Research collaboration and a Perinatal Mental Health Managed Care Network in the West Midlands Giles Berrisford / Jess Heron

5.00 CLOSE

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