Criticised Morecambe Bay NHS trust claimed £2m for ‘good care’ provision

An NHS Trust criticized the rescueable death of a newborn, to provide £ 2m to provide good maternity care, BBC could reveal.

A senior coroner ruled on Friday that the University Hospitals of Morekambay Bay (UHMB) NHS Trust contributed to the death of Ida Lock and failed to learn lessons from previous maternity failures.

Despite this, the trust claimed that it has met all 10 standards under the NHS scheme with the objective of promoting safe treatment.

Ida’s mother Sara Robinson said that the trust of the trust – who refused to comment – was another kick in the teeth, while her father Ryan Lock called it “disgusting”.

Senior Coroner for Lancashire James Adle It was concluded that the IDA died to provide basic medical care due to the gross failure of three midwives.,

Eda, born on 9 November 2019 in Royal Lancaster Information (RLI), died a week after suffering from a severe brain injury due to lack of oxygen.

Dr. Edelle ruled that due to the failure of the baby to give the baby to the baby, immediately when she was in crisis that she was in crisis “and the chief midwife’s” of the Dai “contributed to a completely disabled failure in providing basic newborn revival”.

He said that eight opportunities were remembered “to change the clinical course of IDA”.

His five -week interrogation at the Preston County Hall heard that many issues identified in the independent review of UHMB’s maternity services in 2015 were still clear in November 2019.

RLI is run by UHMB Trust.

Under the Maternity Incentive Scheme run by NHS Resolution, the insurance branch of the Health Services, the Departments of Maternity in England are encouraged to provide good care by meeting 10 security standards, including properly examining the deaths and listening to parents’ concerns.

Trusts that prove that they have met these standards, in addition to a part of the money paid by NHS trusts, get a discount on their insurance premiums that do not.

The scheme is going on in five years, UHMB said that it has met 10 standards four times.

In 2018, the first year of the program, it was paid £ 1,288,241 due to the self-promotion of the trust.

In 2019, in the year of IDA’s death, it received £ 734,112, as it was again claimed to hit all criteria.

The UHMB Trust also claimed a correct 10-out-off-10 record in 2020, but the Care was reviewed by NHS resolution after a significant inspection of maternity services by the Care Quality Commission.

Regulator report Rated maternity service as “insufficient”Three out of 10 were downgramed with a UHMB score.

As a result, UHMB was not paid any money by NHS resolution that year, and the trust was designed to repay the amount received in 2019.

When the payment plan was told and how the trust benefited from it, Mr. Lock said it was “disgusting”.

He said: “It is painting a false picture so that they can get money.”

A former maternity risk manager in the trust, Rocks-Annie Hethington said that the actions of Morekambay Bay were keeping in mind his experience.

“I can, hands-on-horses, say it was not a matter of ‘what we have done (to improve things)?’

“This was a case ‘What we are going to say we have done?”

Dr. Bill Kirkup, whose 2015 investigation exposed widespread failures in maternity care, including 11 infants and a mother prevention death At the Trust’s Furnace General Hospital in Cumbria, he also said that he was not surprised.

He said, “Some trusts tried a lot about how they could present the best picture of themselves, and in very little effort if they are really improving,” he said.

The claims of UHMB are in line with other struggling trusts, who have also made similar wrong submissions under the Maternity Promotion Scheme.

Shrewsbury and Telfard NHS Trust was forced to pay almost £ 1M as it claimed to meet all security standards in the same way.

Its maternity care review published in 2022, Found more than 200 children and mothers could survive With proper care.

East Kent University Hospitals Trust, where an inquiry Found at least 45 children could surviveIt was also forced to repay £ 2M after completing the security criteria.

NHS resolution said in a statement, “University Hospitals of Morekambay Bay NHS Trust initially reported complete compliance with the Maternity Incentive Scheme in the years 1, 2, 3 and 5.

“Although the later NHS resolution reviews were revealed since the publication of his CQC report for evidence 2 and 3 of the trust that they were not fully complied with those years.

“The Trust needed to repay any money for those years. The exemption already given was returned to the NHS resolution and all the obedient trusts were revived.”

The UHMB, which has earlier apologized for his failures in the death of IDA Lock, refused to comment on his participation in the Maternity Incentive Plan.