Who's who
We are a true partnership. Your MNVP is the best combination of a passionate core team, a new parent community engagement team, and diverse parent reps (mostly mums!) who work together with the maternity staff and also the wider powers who run and administer The Royal Berkshire Hospital.
Meet the core team
From our core team through to our diverse team of parent reps, everyone here is passionate about the maternity experience. We’ve all given birth, many of us at the RBH, so can truly appreciate and empathise with your stories.
Our core team are responsible for reviewing all feedback received - but that’s a drop in the ocean of what they do. As well as listening to your voices - whether that’s in person, or from your survey responses - the team work on a variety of projects to ensure that maternity services are accessible and that every person is truly represented.
Click on any of our faces to find out more about what we do and why we love doing it.
Denise Challis
Chair
Danni Miller
Vice Chair
Lydi Edey
Secretary
Our parent community engagement team
Our parent community engagement team (PCE Team) is passionate about connecting with the community, eager to hear their voices and ensure feedback from all communities is contributing to improvements in the service. They work raising awareness and building relationships to foster safe, inclusive spaces for feedback.
They all bring key talents to the MNVP and have their own reasons for working with us, click a face to find out what makes this special team tick.
Our parent reps
Our services cover a wide area and we’d be lost without our team of parent reps. We have a broad range of reps; some work within the maternity field, from hypnobirthing to doulas; others have connections within their communities, running online forums or baby groups; some are parents who want to contribute and get involved. What unites us is the desire to make a difference. Below are just a handful of the parent reps working with us.
To hear more about being a parent rep, click on our faces or pop us an email to talk about getting involved
GETTING INVOLVED
Do these inspiring stories (and smiling faces!) make you want to be part of something amazing? Have a look at the roles we’re recruiting for and find out more about becoming a parent rep here
Our RBH Advocates
From midwives and maternity support workers, registrars and commissioners to consultants and strategic planners, there's a whole host of people who make up the Royal Berkshire MNVP - we are truly a sum of our parts! Here are some of the people within the hospital who we discuss your feedback with in our quarterly meetings.
Find out how they work within the MVP and what makes us such a great partnership - click a face to find out more.
OUH governor - Trustee West Berkshire Neurological Alliance, Chair of Wokingham Area PPG Forum
Our Professional Partners
Not forgetting those who bring their own talents to the table including our health visitors, children’s centres, support groups and wider contributors such as the Breastfeeding Network – we are truly a sum of our parts! To begin partnering with us please contact our Parent Community Engagement Team.
Utulivu Women’s Group is a specialist frontline women’s organisation that supports Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic and Refugees (BAMER) women, girls, and their families in Reading and surrounding areas to ensure they are safe, healthy, and have equal access to opportunities and resources.
A group of parents/carers, and their families, who have experienced neonatal care in one (or more) of the 14 neonatal units across the Thames Valley & Wessex Neonatal Network.
Children Young People and Families Services
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT+) help and support service based in Reading, servicing the Thames Valley Area. New website coming soon!
Providing services for children and families in West Berkshire.
Delivering service to our communities
Alana House is PACT’s service to support and empower women. We offer a confidential, non-judgemental space for anyone who needs it.
Home Start are committed to offering friendship, gentle, non-judgemental support and practical help.
A charity that helps ethnic minority women and their families who live in Reading
A diverse community hub offering a range of services for individuals and families from all backgrounds in West Berkshire.
Independant support and information for breastfeeding families.
THE WIDER MVP NETWORK
To find out more about the MNVP network you can visit https://nationalmaternityvoices.org.uk As an independent body we report to the Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) and the Local Maternity and Neonatal System (LMNS).
‘Real pleasure working with the MVP, it’s been great - a joy and a pleasure to have that critical friendship and to have that feedback and user insight to really help us to get to where we are and to inform where we need to be, so thank you’