Rosie Maternity Voices meets quarterly with senior staff at the Rosie Hospital, commissioners, local charities, community and voluntary groups, to review the experiences and feedback collected from our engagement work.
January 2019
Topics on the agenda
- Induction of Labour Audit from the Rosie Delivery Unit
- Rosie Maternity Voices survey results on Induction of Labour
- Infographic dashboard
September 2018
Topics discussed
- Induction of labour progress on information requested at July meeting
- Continuity of care update for planned Caesarean birth
- Service users: key themes, areas of concern or q’s which have come up:
- Resus trollies
- Baby box feedback
- Positive Birth Movement Cambridge (Histon)
- Sepsis working group
- Update on RMV Chair recruitment
- Dashboards, Rosie Maternity Voices engagement activity July 2017 - Sept 2018
July 2018
Topics discussed
- Update from LMS meetings: Tongue tie service, Continuity of Carer, Cambs Infant Feeding Group, Choice & Personalisation
- Caesarean birth choice & personalisation pathway
- Funding
- Service users: key themes, areas of concern or q’s which have come up:
- Long inductions follow up, presentation from Patient Engagement Midwife on IoL data available to date
- Professional Midwifery Advocate, replacement service for women
- Patient Information Leaflets
- The Rosie: any projects, initiatives or ideas for co-design with service users: Maternal and Neonatal Health Collaboration
- Dashboards
March 2018
Topics discussed
- Update on actions & outcomes to date
- Continuity of Carer. Presentation from CCG/Local Maternity System,
- Rosie Maternity Voices survey results presentations, key points:
- Service users: key themes, areas of concern or q’s which have come up:
- Reports of long inductions lasting 5-7 days, started/stopped/started, women spending too long on Sara Ward in labour with no privacy or pain relief, delays transferring to DU, women feeling scared and alone, impact on mental health, birth trauma. Ensuring women are as well as they can be coming out of pregnancy
- Tongue tie service announcement, engagement plans
- Outreach work with survivors of sexual violence, women with a family worker and young parents
- Query from West Essex MVP chair about the elective caesarean list over Easter
- Update on #WhoseShoes event, actions & outcomes
- RMV Terms of Reference Annual Review (due April 2018)
- Plans for showing thanks on International Day of the Midwife 5th May
- Dashboards: Rosie Hospital and RMV engagement
January 2018
Topics discussed
- Update on actions & outcomes from the September 2017 baby loss & bereavement care meeting
- Discussion on commercial relationships: Baby Boxes Co, filming for C4, advertising of cord blood banking in ultrasound dept., Bounty
- Involving RMV service users in updating and creating Patient Information Leaflets
- Update from PALS on formal complaints and outcomes
- Results from our survey
- Update on #WhoseShoes event, actions & outcomes
- Update on the training of 20 midwives in Hypnobirthing techniques
- Rosie Maternity Voices dashboard of engagement shared
September 2017
Baby loss and bereavement care
The theme of September's meeting was baby loss and bereavement care with Cambridgeshire SANDS. Twenty-five people attended, including 1/3 service users, a Maternity commissioner, the Head of Midwifery, a bereavement midwife and a consultant obstetrician. We heard from five bereaved parents who's babies had died during pregnancy or neonatally and we looked at the 44 responses to the baby loss survey. Together we came up with ideas and suggestions for improvements, many of which were low cost and high impact.
Here is the summary report from the meeting, reproduced here with permission from the parents.
The theme of September's meeting was baby loss and bereavement care with Cambridgeshire SANDS. Twenty-five people attended, including 1/3 service users, a Maternity commissioner, the Head of Midwifery, a bereavement midwife and a consultant obstetrician. We heard from five bereaved parents who's babies had died during pregnancy or neonatally and we looked at the 44 responses to the baby loss survey. Together we came up with ideas and suggestions for improvements, many of which were low cost and high impact.
Here is the summary report from the meeting, reproduced here with permission from the parents.
July 2017
Twenty-six people attended the first Rosie Maternity Voices (RMV) meeting of parent volunteers (service users), Rosie Hospital staff and representatives from local charities, community and voluntary groups; all coming together to improve Rosie maternity services for all.
Some of the topics discussed were:
Some of the topics discussed were:
- A funding grant was confirmed from Addenbrookes Charitable Trust (ACT) which will be used to create a website, parent survey and fund volunteers' expenses for meetings.
- Between meetings, parent volunteers are actively seeking to connect with vulnerable and hard-to-reach groups so everyone's voice is heard (please get in touch if this is something you can help us with).
- A page on the website will be created explaining the various mechanisms for feedback and complaints, including how to get immediate support during labour or on a ward.
- The waterbirth sieves in Rosie Birth Centre did run out *temporarily* however new stock is expected any day. Women are not expected to bring their own (phew!).
- The postnatal visit pattern by midwives was discussed in detail and the importance of women getting timely visits and support in those early days.
- There is some interesting work taking place already in response to PALS complaints, RMV will help parents hear about progress via social media.
- In Oct/Nov 20+ midwives will train in Hypnobirthing and classes will start to be offered at the Rosie (there will be a charge but it will be lower than private classes).
- Themes for future meetings: baby loss & bereavement care; homebirth; infant feeding support.