Public Sector

The recently established NHS Counter Fraud Authority is seeking a supplier of commercial fraud analytics software as it looks to tackle an estimated £1.25 billion annual fraud problem across the National Health Service.

https://www.cbronline.com/news/nhs-fraud-data-help

The FoI request, carried out by IT services company Comparex, received 81 complete or partial responses from London borough, metropolitan and county councils in England

https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252447337/Councils-at-risk-from-unsupported-Windows-Server-and-SQL-Server

A senior NHS manager who treated his local trust as his "personal cash machine" has been jailed.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-45100817

The charity is asking for the company to reinstate funding for students whose instalments are being withheld without any proof of fraud.

http://www.thenationalstudent.com/Student/2018-08-11/we_spoke_to_estranged_students_about_facebook_monitoring_by_the_student_loan_company.html

Fraud affecting the NHS is a £1.29 billion-a-year problem that takes money away from frontline patient care.

http://www.nhsconfed.org/blog/2018/08/together-we-can-fight-nhs-fraud-and-return-vital-funds-to-health-services

A new data matching service used by a council has uncovered a serious case of fraud by a woman who claimed more than £2,000 of benefit she was not entitled to.

http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/16410445.data-matching-service-uncovers-serious-richmond-fraud/

Convicted NHS fraudster has been ordered to pay back over £96,000, to be split between a hospice and the NHS, following successful financial recovery action by the NHS Counter Fraud Authority

https://cfa.nhs.uk/about-nhscfa/latest-news/NHSCFA-recover-97K-from-NHS-fraudster-Jon-Andrewes

Do you use the government’s statistics on the levels fraud and error in the benefits system?

https://www.inclusionlondon.org.uk/campaigns-and-policy/act-now/changes-to-benefit-fraud-and-error-statistics-consultation/

A disgraced NHS executive who lied his way into a string of top jobs has been ordered to sell his boat and cash in a pension plan to repay some of his fraudulent earnings

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-44972346

A doctors’ surgery is at the centre of a police fraud probe after a “very substantial” sum allegedly went missing from practice funds.

https://www.sundaypost.com/fp/fraud-inquiry-launched-as-gp-surgery-faces-shutdown/