2020health Report The Financial Cost of Healthcare Fraud

This report renews research into accurate information concerning the extent of losses to healthcare fraud and error.

The current official estimate of losses to the NHS - £165 million or around 0.15% of expenditure - would mean that it was 20 times better protected against fraud than any other healthcare organisation internationally. This is not credible. Our view is that it would be reasonable to assume that the NHS is no worse or better protected than the best found examples elsewhere, with loses of around 3% of its budget or just over £3 billion per year.
 

The NHS has been tasked with finding efficiency savings of £20 billion over the next few years, and so minimising fraud has the potential to improve the quality of healthcare for everyone in this country.

Jim Gee, Director of Counter Fraud Services at PKF and former Director of Counter Fraud Services for the Department of Health