35. Claire Gartland & Amanda Pike - LISTENING to women and families, maternity and neonatal

Wild Card - Whose Shoes?

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.

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• #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 care
• Military 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 Partnership
Lincolnshire's Maternity & Neonatal Military Care Programme
Lincolnshire listens - our 'neonatal parent voice'
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Chapters

1. 35. Claire Gartland & Amanda Pike - LISTENING to women and families, maternity and neonatal (00:00:00)

2. How can we join things up better between maternity and neonatal care? (00:00:50)

3. Lincolnshire were the FIRST to have a joint LMNS - Maternity and Neonatal Voices Partnership (00:01:40)

4. Claire Gartland, the neonatal project lead, tells us more. (00:02:51)

5. Listening to parents, by holding listening clinics (00:04:36)

6. True coproduction – and the structure to take forward concerns (00:06:15)

7. Recruiting new parents as ‘neonatal voices, championing different issues they are passionate about (00:07:35)

8. Using social media to help a family who gave birth to a premature baby abroad, who was helped to come home and be supported safely. (00:09:20)

9. Meet Amanda – the chair of the maternity voices partnership in Lincolnshire, who also oversees the neonatal voices and the new military voices (00:13:41)

10. A positive outcome can be really healing, after a traumatic birth experience, says Amanda (00:14:19)

11. #PutLincolnshireOnTheMap (00:16:37)

12. This is very relevant to the new Whose Shoes project around Family Integrated Care (00:16:54)

13. So what about the innovative Military Voices Partnership? (00:17:29)

14. A lot of unique challenges face military families in maternity care (00:18:31)

15. The introduction of a military care navigator (00:21:03)

16. Evidence! Lincoln University are supporting with research to try and get this rolled out nationwide (00:21:40)

17. Better support for military families was a key theme of the Whose Shoes #MindNBody perinatal mental health project (00:22:18)

18. Support for military families has been a huge gap in maternity services – now finally being addressed (00:24:35)

19. Topical! Coproduction works! A new neonatal surgical unit is being built in Liverpool – following Whose Shoes conversations! (00:25:22)

20. Local systems feeding into regional and national systems, so parents voices are heard at all levels, and appropriate action taken (00:27:25)

21. It is good when informal and formal systems can you come together in a positive way (00:30:54)

22. Facebook live sessions – and other imaginative uses of social media to engage with families (00:31:33)

23. Let’s share this good work far and wide! (00:34:15)

24. Claire was the first neonatal transformation leader in the country – a trailblazer! (00:34:41)

25. And a big shout out to Sue Jarvis! (00:36:05)

26. Let’s link up with the work around military communities in the South-West, following our Whose Shoes workshops (00:37:20)