Health: Supporting Women, Reducing Harm Short Life Working Group

Overview

This group was established in March 2024 to develop a good practice guide for all agencies supporting women who use substances and their infants and families during pregnancy and the first postnatal year.

The group will work alongside a lived and living experience reference group, made up of women with current or past experience of substance use and pregnancy to co-produce the good practice guide.

Members

• Iona Duckett (co-chair), Scottish Government Professional Advisor, NHS Tayside
• Emma Cashmore-Gordon (co-chair), Aberlour Children’s Charity
• Anne McFadyen, Scottish Government Professional Advisor
• Roch Cantwell, Scottish Government Professional Advisor
• Jaki Lambert, Royal College of Midwives
• Lesley Sharkey, NHS Tayside
• Adam Burley, NHS Lothian
• Haxel Inglis, NHS Highland
• Shelley Arthur, NHS Forth Valley
• Fiona Miele, NHS Grampian
• Marie Balment, Perinatal and Infant Mental Health Network
• Gavin Phillipson, Perinatal and Infant Mental Health Network
• Susana Galea-Singer, Royal College of Psychiatrists in Scotland
• Kirstyn Brogan, Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
• Joanne Smith, NSPCC Scotland
• Sarah Brown, Fetal Alcohol Advisory Support and Training Service
• Ruth Robbins, Healthcare Improvement Scotland
• Donatella Olisterno, Phoenix Futures
• Hannah Boyle, Simon Community Scotland
• Kirsten Horsburgh, Scottish Drugs Forum
• Maree Aldam, Birth Companions
• Linda Thompson, Women’s Support Project
• Lynn Gillies, Social Work Scotland
• Marie-Claire Shankland, NHS Education for Scotland
• Rowan Anderson, Corra Foundation

Publications

Supporting Women, Reducing Harm Short Life Working Group: terms of reference