Help shape and improve your local maternity services by joining the Hampshire Maternity Neonatal Voices Partnership! 

We’re a friendly, independent group of parents, parents-to-be, midwives, doctors, community organisations and local health leaders. Together, we make sure the voices of families are at the heart of improving maternity and neonatal care.

We do this by:

  • Listening to families about your experiences of pregnancy, birth, and postnatal care
  • Gathering feedback at baby groups, community events, and online
  • Working together with Hampshire Hospitals staff to act on your feedback and improve maternity care for local families.

This year, you’ve told us these areas matter most:

  1. Postnatal care on the ward
  2. Feeding support – in the early days and beyond
  3. Access to the Birth Reflections service
  4. The new Winchester Birth Centre
  5. Trauma-informed care
  6. Listening to neonatal parents and reaching underrepresented groups

We support families using maternity and neonatal services at Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust — Andover, Basingstoke and Winchester — serving north and west Hampshire (this does not include the cities of Portsmouth and Southampton).

We’d love to hear from you! You can:

  • Share your experience of pregnancy, birth, or postnatal care (good or bad – it all helps!)
  • Join a meeting or feedback session – these are advertised on our Facebook page and via our mailing list.
  • Contribute to project groups on specific topics
  • Help us gather feedback from other parents at local baby groups and community events

If you’re pregnant or have recently given birth at Hampshire Hospitals, we’d love to hear from you.

📧 Email: hampshire.mnvp@gmail.com
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Your voice can really help make a positive difference for local families!

If you feel passionate about improving the maternity service for all local parents then this committee is for you. We are looking for people who can bring their own experiences as well as the experiences of other parents they meet to our meetings to help shape the future of maternity services. Your views are invaluable to give maternity professionals a service user’s perspective. In addition, a very important part of our work is that we find out what parents from all walks of life need to make their experience of our maternity services a good one. MVP meetings are held locally every month and are informal and friendly. Service users meet before the main meeting to catch up on local issues and review the topics for the meeting, so most parent members find it easy to express their opinions. We discuss a large variety of matters ranging from practical details to policy issues.  Some of our recent topics have included:

  • Helping to develop the new 24 hour labourline including a “mystery shopper” exercise to check how well the midwives working the line were doing.
  • Involvement in developing community consultation surveys for the new acute hospital site being considered for Hampshire
  • Help with the design of the new low risk birth rooms at Winchester
  • Input on patient leaflets for maternity

As a result of the meetings, our MNVP members use their strengths to work on specific maternity projects, respond to maternity surveys and find out the views of other parents and parents to be on issues which could be raised at MNVP meetings.

  • Free training. Members are encouraged to attend training courses and study days to enhance their knowledge. This could be a training session on using social media or an update on normal birth practices
  • Support from fellow MNVP members and regular updates on the progress of MNVP initiatives.
  • Claim forms for any out of pocket expenses, including travel and childcare costs.

You will be paid for your time when attending MNVP events/meetings or helping with MNVP activities, and you will be supported by the MNVP community throughout. Babies are very welcome at our events and meetings.

Babies are most welcome at our events and meetings! Crèche facilities are available for pre-school children at our meetings.

All your reasonable expenses, such as travel and childcare costs, will be repaid for attendance at MNVP events and meetings, or where you are involved in MNVP activities.  Childcare costs are reimbursed regardless of whether you use registered childcare or a family member or friend to care for your children.

Valentine Gardener (Chair of Hampshire MNVP) at hampshire.mnvp@gmail.com
Or contact us through our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/HampshireMNVP