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Birthing Partners General

Your Experience

Colchester, Ipswich and West Suffolk Maternity Voices have partnered to create a survey to hear from dads and partners about their experience of maternity care, during labour and postnatally.

Maternity Voices Partnerships are totally independent of the NHS and have been created to ensure that your voice is heard. When you complete this survey you are contributing to positive changes in the service provision for families in your area.

All feedback you share will remain anoynomous, and is shared with ESNEFT, WSFT, WSCCG, Public Health SCC and Healthwatch Suffolk to help improve services across the area.
1.What year did you use the maternity services?(Required.)
2.Was this your first time using the service?(Required.)
3.Please select which community midwifery team you saw(Required.)
4.During any of the antenatal appointments (including scans), did you feel included in any of the discussions around choices and the planning of baby's arrival?(Required.)
5.Did you feel respected and listened to throughout these appointments?(Required.)
6.Were you ever asked about your own wellbeing before the birth of your baby?(Required.)
7.During labour and birth, did you feel respected and listened to throughout? (Required.)
8.Please feel free to share your own experiences/perspective of the maternity care given during the labour and birth of baby(Required.)
9.If you spent time on, or visited the postnatal ward (F11), please rate your experience and provide comments to support your answer(Required.)
10.During any of the postnatal appointments (including home visits), did you feel included in any of the discussions around the care of your baby?(Required.)
11.Did you feel respected and listened to throughout these appointments?(Required.)
12.Were you ever asked about your own wellbeing following the birth of your baby?(Required.)
13.Overall, please rate your own experience of West Suffolk Maternity care and services(Required.)
14.What was good about your experience?(Required.)
15.What was not so good?(Required.)
16.Do you feel there was anything which could be improved from a partners perspective?(Required.)
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