Fraud could be costing NHS in England £5.7bn a year, says re

[annie]

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The NHS in England could be losing up to £5.7bn a year to fraud from its £100bn budget, a report suggests.

A review - led by former NHS anti-fraud boss Jim Gee - highlighted fraud by pharmacists, dentists, GPs and patients.

Among the areas it found to be affected were procurement, prescriptions, registration of patients and payroll.

The government said the report was "highly speculative" and "full of inconsistencies".

To work out how much fraud is being committed, the review had to rely on estimates as well as detected fraud.

It said the level of fraud was likely to be between £3.7bn and £5.7bn a year, out of a budget of more than £110bn.

Among the scams highlighted were dentists claiming money for NHS care they did not carry out and GPs falsifying records for extra payments.

To illustrate the scale of some of these cases, it highlighted the jailing of a Birmingham dentist in 2012 after she stole £1.4m from the NHS

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[maureenho]

They are all out to line their own pockets.

[wendy]

things get worse, it is unbelievable.
a few bad apples and then they label all the whole lot.