Fraud is somewhat more common than most people think within the NHS. In
general it isn't rampant (although the auditors always seem to single out
NHS catering), and the figure quoted seems quite high to me, but it is
still a problem.
Andrew
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In a message dated 01/12/96 12:11:59, [log in to unmask] (Jon
Rogers)
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<< 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
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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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