NHS Protect
(asked on 12th October 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to Table 1 on page 5 of the NHS Protect document, Payroll fraud: guidance for prevention, detection and investigation, published in June 2015, if he will provide that information for each financial year since 2009-10.
The information for the period 1 June 2012 to 31 May 2014 included in the NHS Protect guidance ‘Payroll fraud: guidance for prevention, detection and investigation’ published in June 2015 was a bespoke piece of analysis for that document. For the financial years 2009-10 to 2013-14 comparative information could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.
From 1 April 2014 reports submitted to NHS Protect have been classified using a new fraud classification system. The information requested for the financial years 2014-15 and 2015-16 is provided in the tables below.
2014-15
Payroll Category | Information reports (IRs) | % of info reports per key area | Turned into cases | % of IRs turned into cases |
Sickness (Working while sick) | 563 | 40.89% | 239 | 42.45% |
Timesheet and Overtime fraud | 478 | 34.71% | 214 | 44.77% |
Travel and Subsistence (Expenses and allowances) | 168 | 12.20% | 93 | 55.36% |
CV issues (Misrepresentation of qualifications and skills) | 168 | 12.20% | 54 | 32.14% |
Total | 1,377 | 100% | 600 | 43.68% |
2015-16
Payroll Category | Information reports (IRs) | % of info reports per key area | Turned into cases | % of IRs turned into cases |
Sickness (Working while sick) | 638 | 44.87% | 214 | 33.54% |
Timesheet and Overtime fraud | 478 | 33.61% | 166 | 34.72% |
Travel and Subsistence (Expenses and allowances) | 188 | 13.22% | 79 | 42.02% |
CV issues (Misrepresentation of qualifications and skills) | 118 | 8.30% | 56 | 47.46% |
Total | 1,422 | 100% | 515 | 39.44% |