What is the MVP?
The Maternity Voices Partnership is an independent body that has been set up to listen to and speak for people who use or have used maternity services at Ipswich Hospital, and we’d really like to hear what you think about your maternity care – before, during, and after your baby’s birth.
You can help shape local maternity services for the future. Maternity Voices Partnerships are independent committees which influence and share in local decision making. All women in the local area should be able to participate in an MVP by giving feedback or becoming service user members of MVP. Partners and families may
also wish to give feedback or join a partnership.
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Maternity service users and families
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Charities and advocacy groups
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Commissioners
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Providers
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Statutory partners, including Healthwatch
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Clinical and managerial representation (midwives, obstetricians, neonatologists, members of the management and financial management team).
Who attends the MVP?
Get involved with the MVP
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You have anything you want to feed back to the MVP group – any good practice, or anything you feel should be changed, you can come along and share your views. This is an independent body, chaired by Jo Cresdee.
Meeting up
Maternity Voices Partnership meetings take place in a variety of locations, either during the day or in the evening, in order to be as accessible as possible to the widest number of service users. You can find the dates of meetings on the Suffolk Babies timetable. Babies are always welcome to attend meetings.
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The five principles of an MVP
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To use personal experiences as evidence.
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To work together as equals, promoting, and valuing participation. To listen to and seek out the voices of all women, families and carers using maternity services, making sure people from diverse communities have a voice, especially those voices that are difficult to hear.
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To work together creatively and with respect, to develop solutions.
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To understand the importance of staff experiences and how that impacts on experiences for women, families and carers (and vice versa).
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To hunt for continuous quality improvement with a particular focus on closing inequality gaps.