4. Consolidating

Now you’ve got your Maternity Voices Partnership (MVP) up and running, you can work towards ensuring that you are meeting all the expectations of a fully functioning MVP. By this point, you should expect to be compliant with national requirements including for example those set out in NHS Resolution’s Clinical Negligence Scheme for Trusts and to be in a position to respond as and when new requirements for coproduction emerge.

• 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