Health: Supporting Women, Reducing Harm Short Life Working Group

Overview

The Supporting Women, Reducing Harm Short Life Working 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 Short Life Working 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