A lot of these will probably be dental fraud, which I understand is by far and
above the most costly type of fraud (with the exception of the two cases
mentioned of other professionals involved in NHS fraud).
Laurie Miles
> -----Original Message-----
> From: GP-UK [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Dr Adrian Midgley
> Sent: 18 January 2007 4:37 pm
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: [GP-UK] fantasy? NHS fraud savings
>
> http://www.informatics.nhs.uk/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=2203
>
> I'd comment there, except the comments involve a page not found 404 error.
>
> The figures don't seem to me to add up, or indeed to be very plausible.
>
> 100 cases with a value of 64 million dealt with...
>
> 811 million punds extra reaching patients (although not patients
> defrauding the system) as a result.
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