In a message dated 01/12/96 12:11:59, [log in to unmask] (Jon Rogers)
writes:
<< 60 million is never "mere". Where did the figure come from? If that
was just GPs (30,000) that would be 2,000 UKP per GP! I would be
surprised!!! >>
I wouldn't, it only takes a few jokers like the GP who with a pharmacist
defrauded several 100,000 by writing fraudulent scripts to bump up the
average, perhaps the lurkers from the papers (who have been strangely silent
for a month or so) would like to do an archive search on fraud for the last
12 months and add up the figures, that would get a tip of the iceberg figure
Trefor Roscoe E-mail;[log in to unmask]
Beighton Health Center Tel 0114-269 5061
Queens Road Fax 0114 269 7186
Sheffield S19 6BJ
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In article <[log in to unmask]>, Iain L M Hotchkies
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>I read that the NHS costs 40 billion a year.
Avon Health gets something like 400,000,000 - it is a larger than
average HA, of which there are 98. Assuming some money is spent
centrally, then 400,000,000 x 100 = 40,000,000,000, ie your first
figure:
>
>Is that 4,000 million (4,000,000,000) or
>
>4 million million (4,000,000,000,000) ?
>
>Doctors are defrauding the NHS of 60m a year
>(allegedly). I need to know whether this
>represents 1.5% of the total budget or a mere
>0.0015%.
60 million is therefore 60 / 40,000 = 0.15%.
60 million is never "mere". Where did the figure come from? If that
was just GPs (30,000) that would be 2,000 UKP per GP! I would be
surprised!!!
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Jon Rogers
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