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Could we have a MN campaign for improved Postnatal care?

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AtYourCervix · 06/07/2011 10:56

Reading the many threads on here it appears that Postnatal care is the most frequently complained about area of the maternity service.

In-patient stays in hospital - Women feel neglected, ignored and unsupported and Postnatal visits at home are rushed and women are 'lucky' to see a midwife 3 times.

I strongly suspect that with NHS cutbacks ths is only going to get worse and I think it is not good enough.

Ideas and opinions please.

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JustineMumsnet · 28/07/2011 10:19

Hi all,
Thanks for your thoughts on this - reading about people's experiences it certainly seems like there is a lot of room for improvement. It would be good to see if there is simple list of requests/actions we could hone things down to. We'll sticky the thread for a bit so it gets to as wide an audience on here as possible over the next couple of weeks. Please do add your thoughts and experiences if you haven't already and please do also raise any potential problems/ objections if anyone has any.

Thanks.

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HelenMumsnet · 02/08/2011 10:28

Morning. Thanks so much for all your posts so far. Please do keep them coming!

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KatieMumsnet · 30/08/2011 17:10

Hi Everyone

Many thanks for all your comments and stories, SarfEasticated, your experience is scarily familiar! Really tough reading at times, but also great to have so many positive suggestions.

We've already flagged the thread with the Department of Health, and are on our way to see them tomorrow morning (primarily to talk our miscarriage campaign, which we're hoping to do more on this Autumn), but have asked to put this on agenda.

I'm hoping to find out how practical and easy it would be to get information sheets on the wards. Can we do it nationally with the Department of Health helping us with a template? Or do we have to do it at Trust level, to ensure we get your real-life advice incorporated? If so, what's the easiest way to go about this?

I'll let you know how the meeting goes (and keep an eye on the thread before hand), so do let us know what you think.

K x

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KatieMumsnet · 03/10/2011 11:35

Hi Everyone and massive apologies for the delay in the update. The usual work and home shenagians , I wont bore you with, but rest assured we?ve been thinking of this thread lots.

Right ? Dept of Health (DH) meeting ? they were very engaging and interested, could relate to much of the thread, but AtYourCervix wins the gold star for correctly guessing most of this has to be done and trust and local level.

This makes a lot of sense as visiting times, ward layouts etc are all going to be difficult, but also is going to be a familiar factor in the new ?localised? NHS ? as we?re seeing on the miscarriage campaign (oh how I wish there was a big clunky lever in Whitehall we could just get pushed).

Anyhow ? they gave us some good info and we?ve had a think. Probably the best way forward is to start with one trust, see if we can get a leaflet up and running, and then share the love (or as I believe it is more commonly known ?best practice?).

In terms of how we work with the trust the DH said going through local Maternity Services Liaison Committees (there should be one for every PCT) might be a good idea (although their activity levels vary).

Is anyone a member of their local Maternity Services Liaison Committee or does anyone know a good local one? If so, is you area a good place to start?

Or does anyone want to make a bid for the first leaflet to be for their local hospital?

Once we?d agreed on the hospital and checked the trust are keen, we?d be able to put a thread on the boards asking for lots of info. about the hospital, but would also need you to do a bit of ground work and chatting to the trust.

When we have all the info., we can pull it together in a doc. ? which we can prettify and give to the trust to use. This would also be a template for other hospitals. At this point, we can also talk to NHS Choices, the main NHS website to see if it?s something they could carry.

We?re ?going live? with the next stage of our miscarriage campaign on the 10th of October so it would be great to have a feeling on the first trust we should tackle, and get started on compiling the info. a week or two after that.

Do let us know what you think

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KatieMumsnet · 08/12/2011 12:23

Hello, hope all OK with everyone. Apologies again for the delay. Firstly wanted to say thanks to EFR. Yes have read your review - was especially helpful as had to go to meeting at Guardian on Monday re state of maternity services, so great to sound so well read! The Royal College of Midwives and the Royal College of Obs and Gynae were also there, and while more focussed on longer term changes, all very receptive to the main points of this thread.

EFR and Blondieminx thanks so much for your suggestions - sound really promising, and hopefully we can help. If your MSLC say yes, then we'd be happy to host a thread asking for feedback/ top tips for those units so we can help produce a leaflet in those areas, as a start. Also think we could try for a couple more areas and see if we could get a bit of support for the leaflet.

is it clear what will happen to MSLC after PCTs are disbanded?

Maybe when we have couple of strong examples we can then think a bit bigger!

Realise there might just be me and the tumbleweed on this thread as a little time has elapsed, so I'll send you both a private message, but if anyone else is on an local Mat Services Liaison Cttee and wants to get involved, or just wants to get involved do shout.

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