did everyone know the department of health is 'in partnership' with Mumsnet?

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Apparently the government is working in partnership with MN to 'allow users to provide feedback' on maternity care.

According to a govt plan for the NHS over the next five years 'NHS 2010?2015: from good to great.'

I didn't know about this - anyone else? MN HQ?

Sounds like a jolly good idea but not sure posters consider themselves 'partners' of the government...

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo Threadie! Don't go!

And the campaigns thing (naturally a good enough thing in itself) has been used to give a blanket justification to a rather intensive courting of the media.

I sort of see this as the other way around - there is focus at the moment because of the "white van man wot won it" focus on mothers in the run-up to the election. And with the DM issue a lot of people were asking "Well what DO we stand for? What SHOULD we campaign for?" - so it seems to me that the impetus for campaigning was really from the Mumsnetters (it was what they said was missing over the DM time - a focus of campaigning) and the time is good now because people are listening because of the election media focus - which at the end of the day, we all know is just a peg for 'interesting news item vaguely pertaining to politics' - but it seems a shame to sit here and NOT wave placards if so many people are listening/watching for a short period of time. IMO.