NHS Resolution Maternity Incentive Scheme: update
13th August, 2020
The Maternity Incentive Scheme supports the delivery of safer maternity care through an incentive element to Trust's contributions to CNST. The Scheme rewards Trusts that meet ten safety actions designed to improve the delivery of best practice in maternity and neonatal services.
NHS Resolution have now released an update in relation to the Maternity Incentive Scheme, which is now in its third year. Please find a summary of this below:
General
The review/submission dates for the year three maternity safety actions, initially planned from March 2020 onwards, are being revised and will be updated.
The timeline from the MIS will also be revised and the submission date for the board declaration form will be deferred to 2021.
The Trust declarations will be required to be submitted six months after the launch date of the scheme.
If contact details have changed for your nominated MIS lead NHS Resolution ask that these are updated.
Finance
The NHS Resolution MIS team plan to operate the financial arrangements on the same basis as before, i.e. to uplift the maternity element of contributions by 10% with a view to returning all of those funds to the Trusts that meet all of the ten maternity safety actions.
If all ten maternity safety actions are not achieved, some Trusts may be eligible for a small amount of funding to support progress.
Maternity contributions will be collected in the financial year starting April 2021.
Training
Safety Action 8 – Multi-Disciplinary Training
NHS Resolution accept that as a result of Covid-19 it has not been possible to perform local face-to-face training and it is likely that this will still be limited in the future.
As an interim arrangement, NHS Resolution are planning to amend the requirements of Safety Action Eight, as it is recognised that traditional ‘hands-on’ drills and skills/ in situ simulations may not be possible or practical for the immediate future.
The interim arrangements will include local multi-disciplinary training being provided as a local, half-day virtual/on-line training package as an alternative option for local MIS training requirements.
NHS Resolution will provide more information on the content of this local on-line training and will signpost possible resources in the next few weeks.
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