Hello everyone,

We need your help and feedback on our Q exchange proposal: Co-producing equitable and respectful maternity care using a systems approach.

The overall aim of our project is to explore how to effectively implement and assess the quality of multi-stakeholder co-production with communities, voluntary sector, NHS, and local authorities to improve the experience of maternity care for Black women and their families.

We know co-production is a good idea, but we know less about whether we are doing it in a ‘high-quality’ way, and how it would work when you have lots of stakeholders involved.

We want the lessons learned from this project to be useful as possible to other systems, so would be great to hear everyone’s thoughts on:

• What questions do you have about doing co-production with minoritised communities and/or maternity care with multiple stakeholders (NHS, local authorities, voluntary sector)?
• How could you potentially use the insights from this project to inform your health inequalities work?
• What facilitators or barriers do you currently face when it comes to partnership building with minority ethnic communities?

Any thoughts, suggestions, or offers of a quick chat are most welcome!