Norwich Maternity Voices Partnership

What is an MVP?

A Maternity Voices Partnership (MVP) is an NHS working group, a mix of individuals who use or provide maternity services. This can include service users, birth workers, doulas, service commissioners and service providers such as midwives and doctors. These people work in partnership to review and develop local maternity care. The Norwich MVP is linked to the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital (NNUH) and the group is led by service user chair and vice chair Jenny Whatling and Jude Applin.

How can we help you?

The MVP takes forward issues raised by maternity services users (mostly, parents and parents-to-be), by looking at aspects of the service in detail and making recommendations for improvements. Service users, providers and commissioners then work together on putting these changes into practice. We are interested in hearing about your experiences of maternity care so that we can represent the voices of as many families as possible.

How can you get involved?

There are several ways to get involved with the MVP, get in touch to share your personal experiences, raise an issue or to become a service user representative.

You can email us or get in touch through one of our very active social media pages: