About this episode
One of our major #MatExp #WhoseShoes projects is called ‘Nobody’s Patient’. This included exploring the interface between maternity and neonatal care, and how families experience this.Our podcast guests today are from Lincolnshire, who were the FIRST in the country to set up a joint ‘Matarnity and Neonatal Voices Partnership’ – these LMNS groups have since spread across the country.How did they do it? What did they learn? How disd it lead to the first MILITARY Voices Partnership.In a lovely blend of lived and learned experience, Claire Gartland, Amanda Pike (and Sue Jarvis in absentia) tell us more.Lemon lightbulbs ???#PutLincolnshireOnTheMap It is vital to join things up better between maternity and neonatal care Lincolnshire were the FIRST to have a joint LMNS - Maternity and Neonatal Voices Partnership Watch this space - the new Whose Shoes project around Family Integrated Care A positive outcome can be really healing, after a traumatic birth experience Listening clinics in children’s centres – a great way to listen to parents! True coproduction – you need a good structure to take forward concerns and make things happen Keep recruiting new ‘neonatal voices’, championing issues they are passionate about and bringing new experiences Use social media imaginatively to engage with families – even when they are abroad! Military families face a lot of unique challenges when accessing maternity careMilitary Voices Partnership and a military care navigator important! Better support for military families was a key theme of the Whose Shoes #MindNBody perinatal mental health project When you have a great idea, get your local university to help collect evidence Coproduction works! A new neonatal surgical unit is being built in Liverpool – following Whose Shoes conversations! Let’s link up with the work around military communities in the South-West Let’s share this good work far and wide! Links and resources Lincolnshire Maternity Voices PartnershipLincolnshire's Maternity & Neonatal Military Care ProgrammeLincolnshire listens - our 'neonatal parent voice'We LOVE it when you leave a review!If you enjoy my podcast and find these conversations usefulplease share your thoughts b
