Maternity & Neonatal Voices Partnership - Preston, Chorley & South Ribble

09/12/2025

After a long wait, our local MNVP survey is now up and running 🙌🏼

Please share

For anyone wanting to share their feedback and/or experince please use the survey QR for or link below:

https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/MNVPsurvey/

05/12/2025

This week is Neurodivergent Birth awareness week.
Are you neurodivergent and pregnancy or have had a birthing experience with Lancashire Teaching hospitals that you would like to share! Please do get in touch, we'd love to hear from you.

26/10/2025

TRIGGER WARNING
From a trust point of view, what could be done to raise awareness of the possibility of miscarriages to every expectant parent without causing fear or triggering emotions?

Early pregnancy loss is something that still has to be worked on overall, but all suggestions on this theme would be appreciated- thank you in advance.

15/10/2025

10/10/2025

Huge congratulations to our maternity team for the Race Health Observatory project and improvements to post partum haemorrhage with our service users.
This was a project that the MNVP was involved with from the beginning stages in recruitment of service users to share their experience - we've seen a fantastic deduction within the numbers of woman suffering from PPH on the back of the project from research, learning and changes to the services.
A well deserved award.

Only 3 awards left! Next is the - ⭐ Best Safety Initiative Award ⭐presented by our sponsors



And the winner is… Race and Health Observatory Maternity Improvement Team!



Congratulations to you all! 🎉

10/10/2025

An update from earlier this week from the Ivy team

10/10/2025

Today is world mental health day, we've shared some information and advice from the mental world health day website below.

Please find further information at: https://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/our-work/public-engagement/world-mental-health-day

09/10/2025

From today - the week is now baby loss awareness.
Thinking of all our families who have experienced baby loss.
Be kind to yourselves and if you are struggling and need signposting to support please reach out to us.

Baby Loss Awareness Week may bring up some difficult emotions for parents and other family members.

You may find it helpful to talk about your feelings, and NHS support is available. Charities like Sands - baby loss charity, Miscarriage Association and Tommy's are also available to help.

There is no right way to grieve. Be kind to yourself and remember you are not alone 🩷💙

For more help and support with grief, visit https://www.nhs.uk/mental-health/feelings-symptoms-behaviours/feelings-and-symptoms/grief-bereavement-loss/

06/10/2025

An update from the Ivy Homebirth Team

05/10/2025

Urgent message from the Ivy home birth team

03/10/2025

💗 We need you to join our Women's health workshops. Your input is essential in shaping priorities aligned to the National Women’s Health Strategy and reflect the needs of girls and women in Lancashire and South Cumbria.

🫶🏽 Everyone is welcome to join as many sessions as possible. All the workshops will be held on Microsoft Teams, for dates and times visit: https://orlo.uk/sKpaD

👩🏼‍🦱 Workshops include:

Menstrual health and gynaecological conditions
Fertility, pregnancy, pregnancy loss, and post-natal support
Cancers
Healthy ageing and long-term conditions
Mental health and wellbeing