Draft MVP Toolkit

The MVP Toolkit Review is being overseen by our multidisciplinary Steering Group, and has involved:

• an initial process of listening to concerns and inviting suggestions
• multidisciplinary small group work to understand key issues in more depth
• a review of the existing guidance and resources relating to MVPs

We now have a draft version of the revised toolkit which will be considered at a Steering Group meeting on 7th March. In the meantime, we would welcome any comments on the draft. 

In the final version, we’d like to include links to local MVP resources and documents that can be adapted for use in other areas. If you have examples of any of the following that are working well in your locality, please send them to Hannah. We’d ideally like to include resources from a range of MVPs at different stages of development. We would be interested in any of the following:

• MVP budget
• Business case (i.e. to request funding for the MVP)
• Role descriptions (e.g. MVP chair, vice-chair, other service user roles, clinical rep)
• Terms of reference
• Conflict of interest policy
• New member information pack
• Online feedback form
• Annual/multi-year workplan
• Examples of communication and outreach aimed at widening participation (e.g. outreach to ethnic minority groups or to those living in deprived areas).

Contents

• 1. Introduction

  • 1.1 What is a Maternity Voices Partnership (MVP)?

  • 1.2 How to use this Toolkit

  • 1.3 Equity

• 2. Setting up your MVP

  • 2.1 Agreeing who will be responsible for setting up and maintaining your Maternity Voices Partnership (MVP)

  • 2.2 Determining the geographical footprint of the Maternity Voices Partnership (MVP)

  • 2.3 Deciding how the Maternity Voices Partnership (MVP) support function will be delivered

  • 2.4 Providing a budget for the Maternity Voices Partnership (MVP)

  • 2.5 Determining the mechanism for paying remuneration and expenses to service users

  • 2.6 Inviting staff and service user members

  • 2.7 Recruiting a service user leadership team (e.g. Chair and Vice-chair)

• 3. Getting established

  • 3.1 Holding your first meeting

  • 3.2 Introductory information for members

  • 3.3 IT support for the service user leadership team (e.g. Chair and Vice-chair)

  • 3.4 Induction for the service user leadership team (e.g. Chair and Vice-chair)

  • 3.5 Making Local Maternity System, regional and national connections

  • 3.6 Training and mentoring for Maternity Voices Partnership (MVP) members

  • 3.7 Partnership working

  • 3.8 Social media accounts

  • 3.9 Developing an initial workplan

  • 3.10 Maternity Voices Partnership (MVP) meetings

  • 3.11 Handling enquiries

  • 3.12 Service user representation at key meetings and forums

  • 3.13 Identifying priority issues

  • 3.14 Building trust

• 4. Consolidating

  • 4.1 Strengthening and sustaining your team

  • 4.2 Developing your meeting format

  • 4.3 Annual workplan

  • 4.4 Feedback

  • 4.5 Reviewing services

  • 4.6 Coproduction

  • 4.7 Representation

  • 4.8 Input to strategic decision-making

  • 4.9 Safety

  • 4.10 Choice & personalisation

  • 4.11 Equity

  • 4.12 Neonatal

  • 4.13 Perinatal mental health

  • 4.14 Working at provider-level

  • 4.15 Working with the Local Maternity System (LMS)

  • 4.16 Regional involvement

  • 4.17 National involvement

  • 4.18 Communication

  • 4.19 Governance

  • 4.20 Budget

• 5. Pioneering

  • 5.1 We said we did – helping to do the work

  • 5.2 Supporting research

  • 5.3 Diversity champion roles

  • 5.4 Neonatal voices

  • 5.5 Focusing on particular community groups

  • 5.6 Next steps for the service user leadership team (e.g. Chair and Vice-chair)