Help us to improve and enhance our maternity services, contribute to research projects at your maternity unit and give us feedback on your experience. Explore how to do so here:
Reproductive health includes clinical trials through all stages of women’s lives from preconception, pregnancy, birth and later life, developing better treatments, care and quality of life for women and their babies.
By taking part, healthy women, or women with a condition, contribute to improving healthcare and provide researchers with new information. Some women gain reassurance from being more closely and regularly monitored, as required by some studies.
Recent evidence suggests that pregnant women who participate in clinical trials experience better outcomes than those outside of trials (See here).
Be part of the conversation and ask about clinical research in your maternity unit.
Volunteers help to improve and enhance the patient and service user experience, complementing the work of employed maternity staff in 
Each NHS trust has a Maternity Voices Partnership (MVP) group. They are made up of a team of service users, their families, commissioners, providers, doctors and midwives who work together to ensure service users’ voices are heard and are at the heart of improving maternity services.
All MVPs are led by service users just like you – they have had a baby and used our maternity services. A key purpose of each MVP is to ensure everyone using our services has an opportunity to have their voice heard.
Your local MVP would be very keen to hear about your maternity experiences good or bad.
Here are the email addresses and links for each of the MVPs:
