Maternity services
Our hospitals provide maternity care for more than 8,000 women every year
The Friends & Family Test (FFT) is about giving patients the opportunity to provide quick feedback on their care and treatment experience. It’s in use across most local NHS healthcare services.
You can tell us what is going well and what can be improved so that people who make decisions about local healthcare can take your views into account. It doesn’t take long and you don’t need to give your details.
The FFT is available to all patients, so next time you visit the hospital, look for details to tell us what you think in the area you are in, or ask a member of staff for more information.
You can leave your feedback for our Maternity Services here.
The MVP is a forum for service users and representatives to work in partnership with staff to ensure our maternity services provide family-centred care and continuous improvement. We encourage you to provide feedback about your experience by getting involved. You can find out more information here: Maternity Voices Partnership.
The Local Maternity and Neonatal System (LMNS) is made up of members from Nottingham University Hospitals Trust, Sherwood Forest Hospital, Public Health, CityCare, Primary Care, community sector organisations and experts by experience via Maternity Voices Partnership, working together to ensure that maternity and neonatal services in Nottingham and Nottinghamshire are safe and personalised to the needs of women and their families.
The LMNS vision is for maternity services across Nottingham and Nottinghamshire to become safer, more personalised, kinder, professional and more family friendly; where every family has access to information to enable their to make decisions about their care; and where they and their baby can access support that is centred around their individual needs and circumstances.
The programme aims to implement national maternity strategy within the local system, based on Better Births and the recent Ockenden recommendations. Key areas of focus include:
To deliver our programme, the LMNS wants to work in collaboration with families and professionals.
If you are interested in getting involved or finding out more, please email us at nnicb-nn.nottslmns@nhs.net
You can read more about the LMNS here: LMNS who we are