Hull and East Riding MNVP
About Hull and East Riding MNVP
Our Maternity and Neonatal Voices Partnership (MNVP) aims to represent the families of Hull and the East Riding. If you received maternity and/or neonatal care at Hull Women and Children's hospital, we’d love to hear your experiences. If you live in the East Riding but used York, Scarborough or Scunthorpe hospitals please head over to the York and Scarborough or North and North East Lincs MNVP pages.
At the Hull and East Riding MNVP we listen to and engage with families throughout the birthing journey, from conception to baby being 1.
We are a group of service users, healthcare professionals and local organisations working together to improve maternity and neonatal care. With your feedback, our aim is to make maternity and neonatal care better for the people who use the services. Please do share your feedback, both positive experiences and things that can be improved, so we can ensure your voice is heard and change is made.
Meet Your Hull and East Riding MNVP Lead
Rachael Smith
MNVP Lead for Hull and
East Riding
About
I had two very different birth experiences in Hull and wanted to use the positives and negatives from my journeys to help make improvements for the future for other parents. When the Hull MNVP was established, I volunteered for the role to help get it up and running and to make a difference to local families.
Interests
We’re always interested in visiting groups to get more feedback, if you’d like us to visit your group please contact us!
What would you like to achieve as MNVP Lead?
To continue what we're doing and engage as many people as possible! Find out more about what we do in our leaflet which is available here.
Meet the Hull and East Riding MNVP Team
Marie Thompson
Hull Neonatal Lead
(also supports North and
North East Lincolnshire MNVP)
Leonie Eastwood
East Riding North
Engagement Lead
Sam Hutchings
East Riding West
Engagement Lead
Nicola Dobson
Hull
Engagement Lead
About our meetings and where you can find us
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Next Meeting: Thursday, 12 February 2026, at 10.00 am to 12.00 noon. Future 2026 dates will be circulated shortly.
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Venue: virtual by MS Teams (please contact hny.lms@nhs.net for the meeting link)
If you would like adding to our distribution list, please get in touch.
What we have been up to
Here are a few examples of our recent work and projects to keep you up-to-date about what we have been up to
Newsletters
Coming soon, our newsletter
Surveys
Please give us your feedback through the periodic MNVP surveys we run. You can also view the results from these surveys.
15 Steps Report
Coming soon, our latest report
You said, we did
Coming soon, actions taken from your feedback
Quarterly Feedback
Please take a few minutes to read the feedback we presented to our last meeting in October 2025
Address
C/o Humber and North Yorkshire
Health Care Partnership,
Local Maternity and Neonatal Service,
Safe Haven (First Floor), Health House,
Grange Park Lane, Willerby, HU10 6DT
