NHS fraud costs more than £1.2 billion a year, report reveals

NHS fraud costs more than £1.2 billion a year, report reveals The NHS is losing more than £1.2 billion to fraud each year, according to a new report which found that GPs are inventing patients in order to make extra money.

“List inflation”, where practices claim they are treating more patients than they are, fraud through self-prescribing and the filing of duplicate timesheets by agency staff are among a range of “sharp practices” investigators have uncovered. The Daily Telegraph

See also:

• Tackling Fraud, Bribery and Corruption: Economic Crime Strategy 2018-2021 NHS England
• NHS staff in £214 million fraud: Crooked GPs and dentists are scamming health service The Daily Mail
• GP practices defraud health service out of £88m a year, NHS report suggests GPonline