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. <\/p>\n
Hospitals are asked to judge their performance against a range of standards, including listening to patients’ concerns, staffing levels and properly investigating deaths.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
For the past two years, the Leeds trust reported it had met all 10 standards and was paid \u00a34,887,084 from the scheme. <\/p>\n
But the regulator, the Care Quality Commission (CQC), published a damning report in June about maternity services at the trust. <\/p>\n
Care was rated as inadequate, the lowest level, and it warned that women and babies were being exposed to “significant risk”.<\/p>\n
The report prompted NHS Resolution to ask Leeds to re-examine its submissions to the Maternity Incentive Scheme. The subsequent review found not all safety standards had been met, forcing the trust to repay all the money it had received.<\/p>\n
“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” in the care they received.<\/p>\n
“This provides yet further evidence for the need for a full, independent inquiry into the Leeds trust,” she said, believing this should be led by senior midwife Donna Ockenden.<\/p>\n
Mrs Winser-Ramm was among a group of parents who met Health Secretary Wes Streeting last week and demanded an investigation into maternity services at the trust. <\/p>\n
Streeting has so far refused to order such an inquiry but the families, who have all experienced poor maternity care, said they remained hopeful. <\/p>\n
Over the past few months, dozens of families have told the BBC they received inadequate care at the trust.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The trust received the money under a programme called the Maternity Incentive Scheme, which is run by NHS…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":165326,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-165325","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-healthcare","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}