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Amazing NHS Fraud,
NHS Fraud Squad: Catching the crooks stealing £1.3 billion from the system
Every year, close to £1.3 billion is defrauded from the NHS. It is a shocking attack on an organisation that needs every penny for patient care. What may surprise those who don’t know about the scale of fraud against the health service is how much of that money is stolen by insiders.
In one case, investigated by Scotland’s NHS counter fraud service, a hospital worker stole surgical equipment worth £1.3 million, which was spent on lavish holidays.
We see a number of cases involving dentists, such as one who stole more than £1 million by charging for work she hadn’t conducted and making claims for people who were dead or didn’t exist.
My most significant case to date was the investigation of a group of perfusionists, specialists who operate heart-lung machines during certain types of surgery. The group was employed full time at Basildon University Hospital, but during their paid NHS hours, its members were working off-site on private contracts at other hospitals. They billed the service for 14,000 hours of work that they didn’t conduct, cheating it out of more than £1 million pounds.
Andrew Taylor was a locksmith at Guy’s Hospital, London, who cheated the NHS out of £600,000, which he used to fund private school fees and a car worth £27,000.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/thinking-man/nhs-fraud-squad-catching-medical-insiders-stealing-13-billion/
Every year, close to £1.3 billion is defrauded from the NHS. It is a shocking attack on an organisation that needs every penny for patient care. What may surprise those who don’t know about the scale of fraud against the health service is how much of that money is stolen by insiders.
In one case, investigated by Scotland’s NHS counter fraud service, a hospital worker stole surgical equipment worth £1.3 million, which was spent on lavish holidays.
We see a number of cases involving dentists, such as one who stole more than £1 million by charging for work she hadn’t conducted and making claims for people who were dead or didn’t exist.
My most significant case to date was the investigation of a group of perfusionists, specialists who operate heart-lung machines during certain types of surgery. The group was employed full time at Basildon University Hospital, but during their paid NHS hours, its members were working off-site on private contracts at other hospitals. They billed the service for 14,000 hours of work that they didn’t conduct, cheating it out of more than £1 million pounds.
Andrew Taylor was a locksmith at Guy’s Hospital, London, who cheated the NHS out of £600,000, which he used to fund private school fees and a car worth £27,000.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/thinking-man/nhs-fraud-squad-catching-medical-insiders-stealing-13-billion/
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This lead them to find out that a letter sent to them asking for future payments to be paid into a different account was bogus.
Further investigations found a further 31 similar cases.
There was a delay of a month before this was reported to the police.
By this time the money was long gone.
One group of people got away with £12million, but it seems they recovered £1.5million.
No wonder it is a bottomless pit as far as money is concerned.