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Looking for experts by experience who used services at the Nottingham and/or Derby MBU

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Hi there wonderful strong women :)

I am writing on behalf of the East Midlands Perinatal Mental Health Provider Collaborative to check whether there are any women interested to join our Expert by Experience group.

Experts by Experience are people who have personal experience of either using perinatal mental health services or caring for someone who has used these services. In other words, the frequent users and visitors of this forum. Although we are specifially looking for service users of the MBUs in Nottingham and/or Derby in this case.

Our Experts by Experience group hold a monthly online group meeting to discuss current topics about the East Midlands MBUs. You can be involved in other meetings and co-production work if this is something you are interested in.

Currently we are just a group of four Experts by Experience, who coincidently all attended the MBU in Nottingham and three of us suffered PP (one postnatal depression). But we hope to grow and diversify the group over time. So please consider joining if you have used services in the East Midlands in the last five years and also feel free to share the message with your partner/parents or perhaps other women who you know from the MBU

More information in the attached leaflet, or prinstcreens of it.

For further info you can respond here or email directly to: vicki.baxendale1@nhs.net

Warm wishes,

Willemijn

Two other members of the Expert by Experience group are also active on this forum so they may respond to your questions in my absence. As I am currently 7 months pregnant so carefully looking after my own mental health and sleep!

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Back side of the leaflet here as only one image per post was allowed...

Leaflet with information on expert by experience group NHS
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Hi,

I’m also a member of the East Midlands Experts by Experience group and we would really love to hear from anyone who has stayed in Nottingham or Derby MBU or supported anyone who has.

xx

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