Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many cases of staff providing fraudulent qualifications have been detected in the NHS over the last three years.
Data on the number of cases of staff providing fraudulent qualifications detected in the National Health Service over the last three years is collected by the NHS Counter Fraud Authority. The information is shown in the following table.
Financial year | Number of cases |
2015 - 16 | 14 |
2016 - 17 | 15 |
2017 - 18 | 2 |