Doncaster and Bassetlaw Maternity Voices (Formerly Bassetlaw Maternity Voices Group - Pregnancy)

Themes: Advocacy, Counselling, Parenting
Aimed at: Women only
National Maternity Voices (NMV) is the association of Maternity Voices Partnership (MVP) independent lay chairs in England. We support and network MVPs.

A Maternity Voices Partnership (MVP) is a NHS working group: a team of women and their families, commissioners and providers (midwives and doctors) working together to review and contribute to the development of local maternity care.

National Maternity Voices supports the co-production of maternity and neonatal services with service users by providing:

A toolkit of template materials for MVPs,
Peer support networks, support and consultancy for MVP members, service user representatives, NHS staff and others interested in involving maternity service users in the development of services.
Training, Mentoring and events for Chairs, service user representatives and NHS staff.
Good practice in setting up and developing MVPs among commissioners and provider staff of maternity services in England will ensure:

Every woman on the maternity pathway has a chance to have her voice heard about the service she is receiving through an MVP
Every MVP is adequately resourced to engage in true co-production of maternity services
Local MVP chairs and service user members feel networked and supported in their roleespanolfarm.com
MVPs are involved in work in their local communities and also represented at Local Maternity System (LMS) level
Area: Bassetlaw