Panorama: The Great NHS Robbery
March 24, 2014
I’ll be watching tonight’s Panorama.
Bolding mine.
Panorama investigates fraud in the National Health Service. With the NHS under financial pressure as never before, reporter Fiona Walker finds fraud in/against the NHS could be far greater than benefits fraud but with fewer resources to tackle it. The programme hears claims that the health service in the UK is losing billions every year to fraudsters – enough to employ 330,000 new nurses. In Britain’s 21st-century health service, where multimillion private contracts are up for grabs, Panorama goes in search of the fraudsters to reveal their crimes and highlights calls for tougher penalties for those who harm patients and steal NHS resources and money that should be used to care for the sick.
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fraud in/against the NHS could be far greater than benefits fraud but with fewer resources to tackle it. think this is the tory way less money to keep it in order show all its failing look whose telling you bbc the tory mouth piece they caused all the nhs troubles by cutting billions from their budget its the governments fault not the nhs get ready for the yanks to buy it up with Unum selling you a policy to stay at hospital yet didn’t they deny others in usa thrown out over here to do the same again I think privitising the nhs is getting there by this devious lot
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If every staff member would stop phoning home with trivial questions for example :- what have we got in for tea? then the NHS would save thousands on that one phone call. This was told to me buy a senior staff member.
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This might be of interest. https://fullfact.org/health/fraud_cost_nhs_panorama-30819
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