May 2022

 

Maternal Mental Health Leaflet – Co production: Sarah Penn from Happy Mums talked about the Coproduction together with Maternity Voices of a Maternal Mental Health leaflet to identify what services and support there is and how to access.  The leaflets will consider the needs and voices of wide range of persons, to ensure inclusion and diversity in development of resources.

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Induction Experiences – the MVP will include in the workplan in West Cumbria experiences of women trialling use of Dilapan.  The MVP would welcome feedback about your recent induction experiences in North Cumbria https://www.wnecumbriamvp.co.uk/contact

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Ockenden Support Visit – all Maternity Services in Northeast and Yorkshire will have a visit from the Regional Chief Midwife and a team to look at progress against the Immediate Essential Actions and what further support required.  Representatives from Maternity Voices Partnership will be fully part of those visit days.

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Workplan development

• MVP members discussed what our focussed work should be this financial year.  Everybody’s input needed.  So far areas of work we are looking at are:

• Generally:

  •  Developing outreach listening to hear your experiences including targeted listening to ensure we are listening to wider range of voices including those from minority ethnic and disadvantaged groups. 

  • Look at ways we can increase engagement which has been impacted greatly through Covid; and begin MVP 15 Steps visits to maternity units

  •   Look at how feedback is systematically collected and feedback and responded to.

• Specific areas

  • Induction Experiences

  • Experiences of parents who have had babies in Special Care Baby Unit and Neonatal Intensive Care Experiences (joint project across both North Cumbria MVPs)

  • Bereavement Support for loss  at any gestation (Joint project across both MVPs in North Cumbria)

  • Choice and Personalised Care (Led by Carlisle & Eden MVP)

 

We will need to recruit more service user volunteers to support this work.  The MVP has a small increase in budget to look at recruiting Vice Chair to support this work also.

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Bereavement Support for Loss – Team Evie raised some experience feedback identifying that not all parents receiving timely  info or support they need at time of loss. Further work is ongoing to establish where there may be gaps in support and information received.  If you have any feedback experience from the last year you would wish to share please get in touch https://www.wnecumbriamvp.co.uk/contact

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Visiting Arrangements Update -   visitors twice a day for one hour, are now permitted. Children over  years may visit.

Continuity of Carer Caldew team - is for the time being to be stood down until staffing situation allows for reinstatement. This will be kept under review.

 

Antenatal Parentcraft Videos and Infant feeding video are now available on the Trust website: https://www.ncic.nhs.uk/services/maternity   Please feel free to send the MVP any feedback on these  https://www.wnecumbriamvp.co.uk/contact

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International Day of the Midwife: A big thank you to volunteer Service user Representative Gemma Lamb for collecting the lovely feedback for this celebration day

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