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National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health (UK). Antenatal and Postnatal Mental Health: Clinical Management and Service Guidance: Updated edition. Leicester (UK): British Psychological Society; 2014 Dec. (NICE Clinical Guidelines, No. 192.)

  • April 2018: Footnotes and cautions have been added and amended by NICE to link to the MHRA's latest advice and resources on sodium valproate. Sodium valproate must not be used in pregnancy, and only used in girls and women when there is no alternative and a pregnancy prevention plan is in place. This is because of the risk of malformations and developmental abnormalities in the baby.

April 2018: Footnotes and cautions have been added and amended by NICE to link to the MHRA's latest advice and resources on sodium valproate. Sodium valproate must not be used in pregnancy, and only used in girls and women when there is no alternative and a pregnancy prevention plan is in place. This is because of the risk of malformations and developmental abnormalities in the baby.

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Antenatal and Postnatal Mental Health: Clinical Management and Service Guidance: Updated edition.

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The Guideline Development Group and the NCCMH review team would like to thank the Clinical Guidelines Technical Support Unit and specifically the following people:

  • Ron Gray
    Senior Clinical Research Fellow and Consultant Clinical Epidemiologist, National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit, University of Oxford; Honorary Consultant in Public Health, Oxfordshire Primary Care Trust
  • Anne Lingford-Hughes
    Professor of Addiction Biology at Imperial College; Consultant Psychiatrist with a particular interest in pharmacological treatments of alcohol problems and comorbidity at Central North West London NHS Foundation Trust
  • Nadia Micali
    NIHR Clinician Scientist (Senior Lecturer), Behavioural and Brain Sciences Unit, Institute of Child Health, University College London, London; Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist, Great Ormond Street Hospital, London
  • Anne Oxley
    Team Manager, Perinatal Mental Health Services, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Trust

Assistance in reviewing the health economic literature

  • Toshi Baba
    Honorary Research Associate, University College London

Assistance in reviewing the clinical evidence

  • Rebecca Gate
    Research Assistant, NCCMH
  • Bronwyn Harrison
    Systematic Reviewer, NCCMH
  • Elena Marcus
    Research Assistant, NCCMH
  • Cheryl Palmer
    Research Assistant, NCCMH

Editorial assistance

  • Nuala Ernest
    Assistant Editor, NCCMH

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