"The trust received the money under a programme called the Maternity Incentive Scheme, which is run by NHS Resolution to encourage the health service to provide good maternity care. Hospitals are asked to judge their performance against a range of standards, including listening to patients' concerns, staffing levels and properly investigating deaths. If a trust meets all 10 safety measures, it can get a rebate on its insurance premiums as well as a share of the money paid by trusts that do not meet all the goals."
"For the past two years, the Leeds trust reported it had met all 10 standards and was paid 4,887,084 from the scheme. But the regulator, the Care Quality Commission (CQC), published a damning report in June about maternity services at the trust. Care was rated as inadequate, the lowest level, and it warned that women and babies were being exposed to "significant risk"."
"The subsequent review found not all safety standards had been met, forcing the trust to repay all the money it had received. "The repayment of the award is long overdue and should be going back even further," said Fiona Winser-Ramm, who lost her daughter Aliona in 2020 after what an inquest found to be a number of "gross failures""
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust received £4,887,084 under the Maternity Incentive Scheme after reporting that it met all 10 safety measures. A Care Quality Commission inspection rated the trust's maternity services as inadequate and warned that women and babies were being exposed to "significant risk". NHS Resolution reviewed the trust's submissions and found that not all safety standards had been met. The trust was required to repay the money and said it allocated additional funding to improve maternity services. A bereaved parent stated that the repayment was long overdue after an inquest identified multiple "gross failures".
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