“In some areas, such as Lincolnshire, the Maternity Voices Partnership has developed its own Neonatal Voices group specifically for service users, staff and commissioners to coproduce neonatal services together. It should be noted that this is not to be expected of all MVPs.”
Some Maternity Voices Partnerships (MVPs) have chosen to go beyond the inclusion of neonatal services in their workplan and have set up a separate Neonatal Voices group. Examples of this include:
See my previous comments about parents advisory groups on the neonatal ODN
(Organisation/Role of this commenter: Obstetrician KHFT)
We have limited ourselves to describing current practice in this section, because we understand that the separately commissioned MVP Function and Funding review is considering the question of how MVPs relate to neonatal services.
suggest you contact Kelly Phizaklea regarding this aspect as she is both a MNVP and a PAG service user, k.phizacklea@nhs.net
(Organisation/Role of this commenter: C&P LMNS Programme manager )