Hospital trust at centre of inquiry into babies’ deaths to repay £1m it received for “good care”

A hospital trust at the centre of an investigation into avoidable deaths of babies is to repay a reward of nearly £1m it received for providing good maternity care.

Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust was given £953 391 by NHS Resolution’s maternity incentive scheme after reporting that it met 10 standards for safe services. But two months after the payment in September 2018 the trust’s …