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17/10/2016
The UK government has announced a number of new measures to ensure maternity care in the NHS continues to improve.
The plans were announced by Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt and will provide resources for trusts to improve their approach to maternity safety. This includes £8 million for multi-disciplinary training, with at least £40,000 available to each NHS trust in England.
They will also ensure lessons are learned from mistakes and shared openly across the NHS. A consultation on how to change the litigation culture will also be held by taking views on a new voluntary compensation scheme as an alternative to costly legal processes.
The safer maternity care action plan also includes:
• A £250,000 maternity safety innovation fund to help create and pilot new ideas for improving maternity care
• Publishing new maternity ratings for every clinical commissioning group (CCG) across the NHS to improve transparency, raise standards and give families better information about the quality of local maternity services
• A new national Maternal and Neonatal Health Quality Improvement Programme for all trusts to exchange ideas and best practice
• A consultation to develop a 'safe space' to allow clinicians to speak openly about things that go wrong without fear that information they disclose may be used against them in court or professional misconduct hearings
• The Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch which will be up and running from April 2017.
There will also be a consultation on a new Rapid Resolution and Redress (RRR) scheme. The RRR scheme could investigate and learn lessons from more than 500 incidents a year. In cases where harm was avoidable, this would offer access to financial support without the current obligation on families to launch a formal legal process. At present, the average time families have to wait for resolution of a case is 11.5 years.
Eligible families would be given the option to join an alternative system of compensation that offers support and regular payments, without the need to bring a claim through the courts. The scheme would ensure families receive personalised support including counselling, case management and legal advice.
Commenting on the measures, Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt said: "Our NHS maternity staff do a fantastic job under huge pressure. But even though we have made much progress, our stillbirth rates are still amongst the highest in Western Europe and many on the frontline say there is still too much of a blame culture when things go wrong – often caused by fear of litigation or worry about damage to reputation and careers.
"These comprehensive measures will give practical support to help trusts improve their approach to safety – and help to foster an open and transparent culture so that the courts become a last resort not an automatic first step.
"By learning from proven methods in countries like Sweden we hope to achieve a dramatic reduction in the number of tragedies where babies are lost or injured for life."
(JP/LM)
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New Measures to Improve Maternity Care
The UK government has announced a number of new measures to ensure maternity care in the NHS continues to improve.
The plans were announced by Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt and will provide resources for trusts to improve their approach to maternity safety. This includes £8 million for multi-disciplinary training, with at least £40,000 available to each NHS trust in England.
They will also ensure lessons are learned from mistakes and shared openly across the NHS. A consultation on how to change the litigation culture will also be held by taking views on a new voluntary compensation scheme as an alternative to costly legal processes.
The safer maternity care action plan also includes:
• A £250,000 maternity safety innovation fund to help create and pilot new ideas for improving maternity care
• Publishing new maternity ratings for every clinical commissioning group (CCG) across the NHS to improve transparency, raise standards and give families better information about the quality of local maternity services
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• A new national Maternal and Neonatal Health Quality Improvement Programme for all trusts to exchange ideas and best practice
• A consultation to develop a 'safe space' to allow clinicians to speak openly about things that go wrong without fear that information they disclose may be used against them in court or professional misconduct hearings
• The Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch which will be up and running from April 2017.
There will also be a consultation on a new Rapid Resolution and Redress (RRR) scheme. The RRR scheme could investigate and learn lessons from more than 500 incidents a year. In cases where harm was avoidable, this would offer access to financial support without the current obligation on families to launch a formal legal process. At present, the average time families have to wait for resolution of a case is 11.5 years.
Eligible families would be given the option to join an alternative system of compensation that offers support and regular payments, without the need to bring a claim through the courts. The scheme would ensure families receive personalised support including counselling, case management and legal advice.
Commenting on the measures, Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt said: "Our NHS maternity staff do a fantastic job under huge pressure. But even though we have made much progress, our stillbirth rates are still amongst the highest in Western Europe and many on the frontline say there is still too much of a blame culture when things go wrong – often caused by fear of litigation or worry about damage to reputation and careers.
"These comprehensive measures will give practical support to help trusts improve their approach to safety – and help to foster an open and transparent culture so that the courts become a last resort not an automatic first step.
"By learning from proven methods in countries like Sweden we hope to achieve a dramatic reduction in the number of tragedies where babies are lost or injured for life."
(JP/LM)
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