NHS: Fraud
(asked on 11th May 2018) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the annual cost of fraud in the NHS.
This question was answered on 21st May 2018
For 2015-16 the estimated level of fraud in the National Health Service in England was £1.25 billion. The NHS Counter Fraud Authority, which was established in November 2017, will produce its first Strategic Intelligence Assessment of the estimated level of fraud in the NHS in England for 2016-17 shortly.