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
📱 Follow us on Facebook: Hampshire MNVP

Your voice can really help make a positive difference for local families!

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.

2026 NHS Maternity Survey

Tell us what maternity care is like for you in 2026

This Trust will be carrying out a survey between April and June 2026 to look at the experiences of women who have recently given birth think about their experiences of antenatal care, childbirth, and postnatal care. This will include young mother’s aged 16 and 17 (click here to read the leaflet). This survey is part of a national programme to improve experiences of maternity care.

2026 Maternity Survey

Your feedback matters and is important to us. We want to hear from as many women as possible about the maternity care they have received, to tell us what works well and what you think needs to change.  We will use the survey results and feedback to understand the experience of the maternity care we provide and help us target improvements so everyone using maternity services can have a positive experience. 

If you are invited to take part, the trust will pass on your contact details (name, mobile telephone number and postal address) so researchers can get in touch with you in a few months’ time about the survey, during April and June 2026.

The survey is being carried out by an independent survey contractor, Picker Institute Europe on behalf of the Trust, the Care Quality Commission and the survey co-ordination centre at Ipsos MORI.

Taking part in the survey is voluntary and all answers are confidential. The results of the survey will be presented in a form that does not allow any individual’s answers to be identified. The survey can be completed online or as a paper questionnaire. It is available in several different languages as well as in large print, Braille, and easy read format.

If you do not wish to take part, or have any questions about the survey please contact our PALS and Complaints team on 01256 486766 or via email Palsandcomplaints@hhft.nhs.uk  

Click here to find out more about how we use your information https://www.hampshirehospitals.nhs.uk/privacynotice

The survey is part of the NHS Patient Survey Programme.  Further information about the survey is available at:  https://nhssurveys.org/received-a-questionnaire/

The results will be published on our website and on the NHS Surveys website in Autumn 2026.