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Maternity Voices Partnership (MVP) – Main Meeting

Tuesday 26th March 2019, 10.00am – 12.00pm at CNet

Present: Liz Firth (Chair), Aliya Fazil (Bradford Doulas), Laila Ahmed (CNet), Yazmin Shah (CNet), Aamnah Rahman (Born in Bradford), Catherine Wallis (Hale Project), Victoria Simmons (CCG’s), Sarah Munsie (Airedale Hospital), Emma Fleary (BRI), Rachael Loftus (Action for Children), Alison Brown (Better Start Bradford), Masira Hans (Sharing Voices), Joanne Stubbs ( Specialist Midwife –BTHFT/ BRI ), Charlotte Dunster-Page (Little Minds Matter), Gemma Smith (Family Action),Judith Nevin (NCT BB Buddies), Rachel Dennis (National Care Trust); Abbie Wild ( Specialist Midwife- BTHFT /BRI )

Apologies: Sally Golightly, Sally Parkin, Wafaa Nawaz (INCIC), Gwen RB (Womens Zone), Rachel Wilde (Better Start Bradford), Sonia Fayyaz (BTHFT), Sara Hollins, Charlotte, Tilly Rathnell (Project6)

1. Welcome / Introductions/Apologies

All were welcomed. Apologies – see above

Liz started off by explaining the agenda would be looked at in the 2nd half of the meeting, the first part of the meeting members would start with mapping out what we would like to happen with the MVP/how to work in collaboration.
Victoria spoke about the Stroke Ambassador Program and made everyone aware that the there is an existing model which may be of use to the partnership when considering volunteering

2. Minutes of last meeting and matters arising

Agreed

3. Active Discussion Section – Engagement Strategy

An hour of the meeting was spent scoping out ideas for the MVP Engagement Strategy. Attendees were sat in small groups and shared ideas of how best the MVP should be engaging with service users. Catherine and Victoria also outlined the grassroots system to attendees.
Liz explained that there should be a continual process of the MVP collecting feedback through its activities and feeding these into Grassroots. It was agreed that we would have a Standing Item on each agenda to hear any key themes of trends reported to Grassroots.

Actions:
Yazmin to circulate workshop notes and circulate to members
Catherine Wallis to forward GR information/ to be circulated with minutes

4. Updates

Our two Maternity Service providers are asked to share with us an update at each meeting based on the following questions: What’s going well? What’s challenging? Anything you’d like some support with?

Bradford now has its 24hr triage unit up and running. They have already seen that staff are able to care for women much better, both in the unit and elsewhere in the Maternity unit. They know that they need to communicate this change to service to women and that there is now constant access to care out of hours that is separate to Labour ward.
Bradford have also developed a designated Induction suite on M3 with a dedicated staff team. There was some disappointment from attendees that women are still cared for in bays on a shared ward which it was agreed doesn’t necessarily help women relax and rest in the way that would be most conducive to women birthing well. Staff agreed but explained that the ideal space is not available currently and are pleased that a dedicated space and staff team have now been put in place.
Airedale have implemented a hospital midwife on call system which is freeing up the community midwives time. They’re happy with their current home birth rate of 2.5% (not necessarily amazing compared to other areas but great for Airedale). Happy to be offering family-centered care with side rooms available for extra privacy for families. There have been some changes to midwifery management roles recently which have brought in staff new to Airedale which has brought fresh eyes and ideas to the service. The varied parent education programme, including hypnobirthing, is free to all and gets great feedback. There is a specialist early intervention midwife who provides extended care to women with mental health and substance misuse concerns. Management and staff are working hard on Continuity of Carer model development, the concern currently is that any model they have considered requires more midwives than are currently available. In general recruitment is slow and there is a shortage of paediatric doctors.
Voluntary Sector Liz advised that whilst the Voluntary Sector Stakeholders Group had met, there was a number of apologies at the meeting, so there wasn’t a clear sense of any trends or patterns emerging from voluntary community sector partners. Liz suggested that at future meetings, in addition to feedback from voluntary community sector partners, it would be useful to have a report from Grassroots at this point and reflect on feedback.
Liz asked the members if there were any patterns they were seeing. If so could we bring together things we are seeing from grassroots too.

5. Feedback from the 5 themes

Breastfeeding – Alison Brown
  Attends the Breastfeeding Networks, they are applying for funds required to purchase mothers and babies breast feeding magazines
  The next meeting is at Airedale.
  The key thing is that support for women continues to be an issue.
  National Childbirth Trust are still delivering training.
  Funding is required for mothers which they are not getting at the moment.

Infant Mortality – Ruth Hayward
  Partnership work is overseen by every baby Matters Group, Duncan Cooper new lead recently 
started in post.
  November 2018 meeting the following priority areas were identified; genetic inheritance, smoking in pregnancy and nutrition of mothers and babies

Continuity of Care – Abbie Wild – BRI
  Currently we are working with 4 main CoC pathways: Clover (BSB); Homebirth, Precious 
Caesarean and Gold star.
  Plans to commence more pathways in the near future including a Birth Centre model, Diabetic pathway, multiples pathway
  Information leaflet for women being offered the previous CS pathway has been shared with the MVP for feedback

Perinatal Mental Health – Masira Hans
  Priority regionally & nationally
  More services launched
  Lots of work
  New launch in spring, anytime from March
  Fathers Mental Health
  Explaining to people to address self-care after 1 year
  Support on miscarriages mothers and fathers
  Focus on 2nd & 3rd child

Action: Liz to circulate to MVP members and suggestions from service users for a name for this pathway

Healthy Living – Laila Ahmed

This strand runs through all the other strands (nutrition in pregnancy, emotional health and wellbeing, 
smoking in pregnancy etc.)

Conversations with parents of young family’s highlight income as a main issue “show me how to feed my family on £55 per week”. For some individuals with asylum/ refugees, examples given of having £5 how to cook healthy on £5 per week until right to stay is established. Maha to come talk to us about stream of sanctuary work

Seldom Heard Groups – Liz Firth

Liz advised that hopefully the implementation of the Engagement Strategy and the regular feedback from Grassroots and Vol Sec Stakeholders will mean we have confidence in knowing what concerns our seldom heard groups have.

6. Sarah Bennett – Senior Midwife
West Yorkshire & Harrogate Local Maternity System

Liz informed those present that Sarah was unable to attend this meeting but will attend the next meeting in June .

7. Member News
  Aliya Fazil announced as Co-Chair for MVP
  MVP website (based on Leeds template), another place we can get feedback
  Focus day at Airedale (all on Induction) 11th April 9am – 4:30pm

8. AOB

Themes for next meeting
  Perinatal Social Care Induction pathways
  Social Media- Liz to set up twitter account, will share details if anyone wants to be involved
  Health Watch campaigns (Looking out for your Neighbour) toolkits available for individuals
  Sharing Voices Event 16th April 2019

Actions:

Contact Victoria for more kits
Flyer to be circulated

9. Date of future meetings 10:00 – 12:00 at CNET

Tuesday 25th June 2019 and Tuesday 26th November 2019

Thank you

Click this link to download a PDF of these Minutes

Minutes MVP Main Meet 26.03.19

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Maternity Voices Partnership (MVP) – Voluntary Sector Partners Meeting

Wednesday 13th February 2019, 10.00am – 12.00pm at CNet

Present: Liz Firth (Chair), Masiara Hans (Sharing Voices), Yazmin shah (CNet), Aamnah Rahman (Born in Bradford)

Apologies: Melanie Roberts-Saunders (Home-Start Bradford), Julie Newbold (Bradford Breastfeeding Buddies) Dr Lynn Green (R+R), Laila Ahmed (CNet), Alison Brown (Better Start Bradford), Rachael Loftus (Baby Steps Project), Tilly Rathmell (Project 6)

1. Welcome / Introductions / Apologies

• All were welcomed. Apologies – see above
  To make all VCS members admin, to do more on social media
• Look into setting up MVP Twitter account

2. Co-Chair

• Liz recruited as Chair under the NHS
• Paid £250 for 2 days of work
• Term is due to end January 2020
• No additional budget for co-chair
• Ideally elect new co-chair by March MVP meeting
• Co-chair to chair March meeting
• Someone who volunteers i.e. in a baby group, but not maternity services provider
• Need to be thinking about who can we support and bring into this group
• Encourage people to apply
• Planning meeting

Action: YS to send out Co- Chair info.

3. Summary of Main MVP Meeting and any actions arising for the VSP

• Allocate a section to bring in what’s going well and what isn’t going well
• An hour on a specific topic and an hour on business
• Theme groups to bring info back to the MVP connecting everything together

4. Feedback from partners on the following:

• What’s going well (in your work or in interactions with Maternity Services)?
• What’s not going well?
• Any areas/issues where you’d like to get more involved?

Masira shared details of a case she is dealing with and asked what support was available for her client in this situation;
Mrs. K is a 27 year old female from the BD8 area and suffers from depression and postpartum psychosis. She had been detained at Lynfield Mount Hospital under a section two hence will remain on the ward for 28 days.
Mrs. K has a son who is 11 months old and a daughter who is two years old. Upon my visits to the ward, I began a conversation with Mrs. K and enquired whether her family had visited this past week. She stated they had not visited but she misses her children greatly. She then went on to discuss how the children had not visited as they would need to make an appointment via social services. This is far too labour-some and stressful hence Mrs. Ks family will not begin this process and the children are unable to visit.
I queried this with an occupational therapist who informed me that due to the hospital staff not being insured to look after children, social services would always need to be involved and it must always be supervised contact.
I had questioned if this was still the case if the child attended with another family member and was assured it would be.

5. Member News

• BIB to launch a questionnaire at the end of February in order to get communities involved early on, the message being, act early for happy healthy children.
• BIB Event on 27th September 2019 (venue to be confirmed)
• Sharing Voices/Staying Put Training Session on 13th March 2019
• NHS and BIB websites advertising a number of posts i.e. research, life cycle and admin posts
• Doulas Project is advertising for a vacancy
• Better Start Bradford is advertising for Community Engagement Worker
• Yazmin advised all vacancies advertised in CNet Bulletin News Letter

Actions:

Aamnah to send link;

Aamnah to send poster;

Masira to send info

6. Engagement action planning

Talked about connections, ideas for example a Positive Birth Stories Café. Liz informed to speak to Martin who runs Bread and Roses, he would definitely be up sessions held at the café. They are quiet on a morning 9am- 11am and 2pm – 4pm. Or after they close for the day at 4pm. They charge £25 per hour. Invite people to come and share positive birth stories. To take this to the main MVP meeting and pick a date for April.

Tenx9 Bradford is a storytelling night, where nine people have up to 10 mins each to tell a real story of their lives based on a theme. Share a story or be a listener for others.
This is held on the last Friday of every month from 7pm at Speakers Corner, 4 Ivegate.
Please see link below

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10161834712410160&set=a.10150562837330160&type=3&theater

Engagement Planning meeting to be held on 28/02/19

Discussed how we can connect with women who do not attend meetings, ideas were; setting up a stall at BRI one day, attending a baby weigh in group, setting up a WhatsApp groups.

Talked about agreeing

3 key questions, having a bit of a kit (board, post it notes), a theme to get feedback.

Action: Liz to update

7. AOB

None

8. Date of next meeting

Wednesday 15th May 2019 (10am – 12pm)

Minutes MVP VSPG 13.2.19

To download a PDF of the Event Flier please click here:

MVP info session 17.10.18 flier