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Updated: 16:09, 09 March 2021
An under-fire hospital trust has had to pay back £2.36m to a regulator after falsely claiming it had met all safety standards in its maternity services.
East Kent Hospitals Trust, which is at the centre of a baby death scandal, was awarded millions of pounds following the self-assessments in which bosses claimed to have achieved all safety actions at the maternity units at Margate s QEQM and the William Harvey Hospital in Ashford.
QEQM Hospital in Margate. Picture: Google Street View
The incentive scheme by NHS Resolution sees trusts contribute funds and if they can then demonstrate they have achieved the 10 outlined actions they can recover their money as well as a share of any unallocated funds.