An NHS trust at the center of concerns concerning his poor maternity services had to reimburse nearly 5 million pounds sterling after having wrongly pretended that she had provided safe care to mothers and their babies.
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust was paid for money after declaring that his services had experienced healthcare and safe staff standards.
But a subsequent survey of the health service branch, the NHS resolution, noted that confidence had not complied with the standards and had asked that the money be reimbursed at the NHS.
Leeds Trust said they had allocated additional funding to improve maternity services.
The trust received money as part of a program called the maternity incentive program, which is managed by the resolution of the NHS to encourage the health service to provide good maternity care.
Hospitals are invited to judge their performance against a series of standards, in particular by listening to patient concerns, staff levels and investigating deaths correctly.
If a trust responds to the 10 security measures, it can obtain a discount on its insurance premiums as well as a share of the money paid by the trusts which do not meet all the objectives.
Over the past two years, Leeds Trust has said it had respected the 10 standards and had been paid £ 4,887,084 of the program.
But the regulator, Care Quality Commission (CQC), published an overwhelming report in June on maternity services at the trust.
The care was considered inadequate, the lowest level, and he warned that women and babies were exposed to a “significant risk”.
The report prompted the resolution of the NHS to ask Leeds to re -examine his bids to the maternity incentive program. The subsequent examination revealed that not all security standards had been respected, forcing the trust to reimburse all the money it had received.
“Price reimbursement has been expected for a long time and should come back even further,” said Fiona Winser-Ramm, who lost his daughter Aliona in 2020 after what a survey revealed to be a number of “coarse failures” in the care they received.
“This still provides additional evidence of the need for a complete and independent investigation into Leeds Trust,” she said, saying that should be led by the senior midwife Donna Ockenden.
Ms. Winser-Ramm was part of a group of parents who met the health secretary, Wes Street last week and demanded an investigation into maternity services at Trust.
Street has so far refused to command such an investigation, but families, who have all experienced bad maternity care, said they had been hoped for.
In recent months, dozens of families have told the BBC that they had received inadequate care at the trust.
The maternity incentive program has been assaulted by problems since its creation in 2018 by the Secretary of Health at the time, Jeremy Hunt.
The NHS trusts the poor maternity security files, notably Shrewsbury and Telford, Morecambe Bay, East Kent and Nottingham all claimed to have respected the 10 standards and been paid millions of pounds to not have to reimburse him.
An analysis published by NHS Resolution in July revealed that 24 trustee had to reimburse the premiums in the first four years of the program, of which 18 which were to do more than once.
“At the national level, families have long raised concerns concerning the enormous defects of the self-assessment involved by individual trustees in the maternity incentive program,” said Winse-Ramm.
“Serious questions must be asked about how, if the trust are unable to self-assess conformity with precision, how satisfied we can be satisfied that similar declarations are not common in other areas of self-evaluation.”
Once the examination noted that Leeds had to reimburse the money it had received, the trust applied to a separate fund managed by the resolution of the NHS for the support of maternity improvement and was allocated to 2.1 million pounds sterling.
In a declaration to the BBC, the teaching hospitals of Leeds NHS Trust did not explain how he had wrongly declared that he was in accordance with all program standards.
“We have identified that we were not fully compliant with the program put,” said Magnus Harrison, a chief of the trust.
“We have now received 2.1 million pounds sterling to support our action plan to obtain compliance, which is part of our maternity and neonatal improvement program.”
