Leeds NHS trust forced to repay £5m over maternity failings
At the center of concerns about weak birth services, an NHS confidence had to pay about £ 5 million after claiming that it provided safe care to mothers and babies.
Leeds Training Hospitals NHS Trust said that the money was paid after saying that it complies with safe care and personnel standards.
However, a subsequent investigation carried out by the NHS decision of the healthcare service was found that confidence did not meet the standards and wanted the money to be repaid to NHS.
Leeds Trust said that they have allocated additional financing to improve birth services.
Güven received the money within a program called the birth incentive program carried out by the NHS solution to encourage health service to provide good birth care.
Hospitals are asked to evaluate their performance according to various standards, including listening to patients’ concerns, listening to personnel levels and investigating deaths.
If a trust meets all of 10 security measures, a discount on insurance premiums and payment of confidences that do not meet all targets can take part of the money.
For the last two years, the Leeds Trust 10 standard has also met and paid £ 4,887,084 from the program.
However, the Regulator, the Care Quality Commission (CQC) issued a report on birth services in Trust in June.
The maintenance was rated inadequate and warned that women and babies were exposed to “significant risk”.
The report encouraged the NHS decision to re -examine his presentations from Leeds to the birth incentive program. The next examination found that all the safety standards were not met and that he was forced to repay all the money he received.
Fion The recycling of the award was delayed and he should go back and further, Fion said Fiona Winser-Ramm, who lost his daughter Aliiona in 2020, found that an investigation was a series of “gross failures” in the care they received.
“This offers more evidence that he needs a complete and independent investigation into Leeds Trust, dedi he said, believing that it should be managed by senior midwife donna Ockenden.
Mrs. Winser-Ramm was among a group of parents who met with Health Secretary Wes Streeting last week and demanded an investigation of birth services at Trust.
Streeting has refused to order such an investigation so far, but all families who have weak motherhood care have been hopeful, he said.
In the last few months, dozens of families said that they have received safe care for BBC.
The motherhood incentive plan has been fed with problems since its establishment in 2018 by Jeremy Hunt.
NHS, Shrewsbury and Telford rely on bad birth security records, including the Gulf of Morecambe, East Kent and Nottingham, they all met 10 standards and had to pay back later.
An analysis published by the NHS solution in July found that 24 confidence in the first four years of the plan had to pay premiums and 18 of them had to do more than once.
“Nationally, families have long been concerned about the great flaws of the self -assessment of individual confidence in the birth incentive plan.” He said.
“When the confidences cannot correctly report the compatibility of self -notification, serious questions should be asked about how satisfied themselves are not in other fields of self -reporting.”
After the examination found that Leeds had to pay back the money he received, Trust was applied to a separate fund that NHS decided to support birth development and was allocated £ 2.1 million.
In a statement to the BBC, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust did not announce that the program was in line with all standards.
“We have determined that we do not fully comply with the Miss plan,” the chief medical officer Magnus Harrison. He said.
He continued: “Now it was allocated £ 2.1 million to support our action plan to achieve compatibility that constitutes part of our birth and newborn improvement program.”
