Hospital fines

Where does the fine money go?

Who gets it, and what do they do with it?

I know that these huge failures need addressing, but surely the failing trusts end up in an even worse position, with so much less money to invest in services,

I'm sure this is the second time the QMC has been fined. I can't understand it.

Fining public bodies only disadvantages the users. If a hospital is found at fault, the management should be fined personally or sacked.

When the NHS is crying out for more funds, it seems counter-productive to take money from them. What struggling departments need is an injection of money for better training and more useful staff, surely?

Millie22

I'm sure this is the second time the QMC has been fined. I can't understand it.

This was not QMC but the City Hospital - but both are part of Nottingham University Hospital Trust.

It is both City and QMC.
It was said that the fine would have been much greater if it had been a private company. It is to be repaid over two years.
I am trying to find out where the money goes.

It just goes around in a circle. City Hospital pays the fine- QMC benefits.

The articles I can find date from 2015-2016 and refer to fines for missing government targets eg for waiting times, and are paid to the CCG, Clinical Commissioning Group, which then reallocates the money to new strategies to improve waiting times. So yes, a circular movement.
But I can’t so far find any information about what happens to the current maternity department fines

Ah sorry I thought it was only the QMC.

I still can't see how a fine helps anyone.

It seems that this fine is to be paid to the governing body (I didn't hear properly) I was still astonished that none of the families who were failed are to benefit from the fining (although who could put a price on a baby's life)?

According to google 'The money generated through these fines, which are levied by local and national commissioners, has historically been reinvested back into providers to help them address the underlying causes of performance target breaches.

Yes indeed, otherwise it's tax payers money which pays
the fine.

It goes to the Treasury, heard them say on the news last night. Surely the staff concerned should be disciplined/held to account? Fining the NHS does not impact on them at all does it.

I’m pretty sure these fines and medical compensation will be paid from insurance.

No idea who actually receives the money nor what happens to it.

It seems a strange way to attempt to improve practice.

M0nica

Fining public bodies only disadvantages the users. If a hospital is found at fault, the management should be fined personally or sacked.

I agree.

M0nica

Fining public bodies only disadvantages the users. If a hospital is found at fault, the management should be fined personally or sacked.

I agree with you, but all that is likely to happen is that management will quietly slip away sideways into a virtually identical post.