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Your thoughts, your feelings, and your voice matters to us
Who we are...
Our Maternity & Neonatal Voices Partnership (or MNVP) is a team of local parents, birthing people & their families, commissioners & healthcare providers who work together to review & improve local maternity & neonatal care.
The partnership includes, but is not limited to:
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Maternity Voices Partnership Leads (Meet the team here)
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Service users and their families
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Community voices (including doulas, antenatal educators, breastfeeding counsellors, Healthwatch, hypnobirthing educators, charities and NCT)
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Maternity staff
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Senior Maternity Leads
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Commissioners
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Drs & consultants
What we do...
Our primary role is to listen. We listen to your thoughts & feelings about your experience of pregnancy, birth & the postnatal period throughout University Hospitals Sussex.
UHSussex Maternity Voices covers the following four hospitals and those giving birth in the community:
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Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton
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Princess Royal Hospital in Haywards Heath
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Worthing Hospital
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St Richards Hospital in Chichester
How we do this...
We hear your feedback via
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Engaging with service users on social media
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Email
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1-1 conversations
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Listening events
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Visiting the hospitals to talk to you (this is called walk the patch)
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Attending community groups
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15 steps visits to the hospitals
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Working together with service users to co-produce work with the Trust
We meet regularly with the Trust to ensure your voices are heard, the feedback is passed on and any issues addressed.
We meet 4 times a year on Microsoft Teams, to discuss the work we are doing. We look at what’s going well, which areas need improvement and at the main feedback areas we are currently focusing on. It’s also a platform to raise and explore the feedback we receive through our survey and other mediums.
The MVP creates an opportunity for anyone who has used the maternity services in Brighton & Hove, Haywards, Worthing and Chichester to work with our local NHS teams in helping to develop and implement change.
National Maternity Voices Partnership
