Sheffield Maternity Voices Partnership

28/04/2025

Two videos about Pelvic Health services in South Yorkshire have recently been translated to BSL.

They cover:

- Explaining what we mean by pelvic health
- How to do pelvic floor exercises, and why they’re important
- Signs and symptoms to look out for
- How to get support
- What to expect at a pelvic health physiotherapy appointment.

You can find them here:

This account represents NHS South Yorkshire Integrated Care Board.

28/04/2025

This animation has been produced to show the different options for place of birth in South Yorkshire, as well as the different services that can care for babies that are born prematurely or unwell.

This animation is aimed at exploring your choices of place of birth in and around South Yorkshire, how you will be supported to make your choice and why some...

28/04/2025

Some statistics of what's been happening at the Jessop Wing in March 2025.

Thank you to all those families who have chosen Jessop Wing for their maternity care in March! 💜

Below are some interesting facts about the care we provided this month.

If you have any questions about the stats, please send us a message.

13/03/2025

Would you like to learn more about the Jessop Wing and give your feedback on how services could be improved? If you've used maternity services in Sheffield within the last 3 years, join us for our 15 Steps event on 21st March 10am-2pm, where we'll be visiting Labour Ward, the Maternity Assessment Centre, and the Midwife Led Unit. Lunch is provided and participants will receive a £20 high street voucher. Get in touch by email for more information and to book, as places are limited.

12/03/2025

Sheffield Maternity and Neonatal Voices Partnership are holding our third community iftar, which is a special shared meal at the end of a day of fasting during Ramadan. We still have some spaces, so if you are interested in improving maternity and neonatal care in Sheffield, and would like to hear more about our work and share a meal, we'd love to see you there. Children are welcome, and remain the responsibility of the adult bringing them. Booking is essential, please fill in this form https://forms.gle/bn74xUswPKJiz4tH8

08/01/2025

One of the things we do at the MNVP is run meetings every three months where anyone who wants to get involved or give feedback is welcome. The theme of this upcoming meeting is baby loss, and we are really glad to be jointly organising it with some wonderful people from the Jessop Wing, SANDS, the South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw Local Maternity and Neonatal System and the NHS England regional team. Come and join us if you want to be part of the conversation, we'd love to see you there.

02/01/2025

Sheffield Volunteer Doula programme are recruiting for their next group of doulas. If you'd like to participate in the training and go on to support vulnerable women and birthing people in Sheffield, or would just like to find out more, they have information events coming up during January...

Join one of our Information Events:

ONLINE Wednesday 08/01/25 10am – 11.00am

Town Hall, Pinstone St, Sheffield S1 2HH on Wednesday 08/01/25 1pm – 2.30pm

ONLINE Thursday 09/01/25 7pm – 8.00pm

If you are unable to make any of these dates, please contact us using the details below.

Note Interviews are scheduled from 15-22 January and training starts from 03/02/25 onwards

For log in details and more information, please call: 0114 273 5733 Email: doulaproject@sheffield.gov.uk Visit: https://www.sheffield.gov.uk/home/public-health/doula-volunteer

02/01/2025

Birthrights are running a survey asking about availability of home birth services across the UK

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16/12/2024

NHS England is looking to improve the Pregnancy pages on www.nhs.uk

***Recruitment brief for women and birthing parents who have given birth in the last 3 months***

My name’s Sarah Darley, I'm a User Researcher from NHS England and I work on the NHS website. I'm part of a research team who are currently looking to improve the pregnancy content on the NHS website. As part of this research, we are looking to speak with pregnant women and people and those who have given birth in the last three months about their experiences of finding pregnancy information. We are hoping to speak with people anytime between the week beginning 16th December 2024 to 10th January 2025 (excluding the Christmas and New Year bank holidays!). We are particularly interested to hear a diverse range of experiences, including but not limited to:

· Different ethnicities

· Different ages (particularly teenagers and people over 35)

· People who speak English as an additional language

· People from LGBTQ+ communities and trans communities

Additional to this, we are interested in speaking with people who experience barriers when trying to access health information. For example, the information is not in a format that is accessible or understandable. Thank you so much for your help. For further information or if you have any questions please contact: sarah.darley2@nhs.uk or 07742 505925

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09/12/2024

Come along to our next Maternity and Neonatal Voices meeting, on the theme of Baby Loss.

Our next meeting is on Thursday 30th January, 12-2pm, on Zoom. Anyone who has an interest in improving maternity and neonatal care in Sheffield is welcome - whether you have had care yourself, or work with people who have. You can also share feedback with us in advance for us to share at the meeting (anonymously), either on the theme of baby loss or anything else you wish to feed back.

Get in touch on sheffieldmvpchair@gmail.com or send us a dm. Ella, Saima, Alima, Nupur, Sheffield MNVP team

09/12/2024

If your baby/babies had neonatal care and were born before 37 weeks, between 3 and 18 months ago, these researchers would love to talk to you about your experiences. It's a one-hour interview and you'll receive a £20 shopping voucher. Email Julie.roberts@leicester.ac.uk if you want to take part.

Researchers at the University of Leicester want to talk to parents of babies who were born preterm about the care they and their baby received. Their aim is to improve care in the future. They would like to talk to you if:
• You gave birth to your baby or babies before 37 weeks of pregnancy
• Your baby or babies were born more than 3 months ago but less than 18 months

ago
• Your baby or babies were born in England

If you would like to find out more, please contact Julie.roberts@leicester.ac.uk

09/12/2024

Have you used the Jessop Wing cafeteria (or other catering outlets at Sheffield hospitals)? If you could take a few minutes to fill in this short survey about your experience it would be appreciated, as they are working on making improvements to the catering service and want to hear your feedback https://forms.office.com/e/PMeWh5b88R The survey is open until 14th December.