NHS: Fraud
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much was lost to fraud in the NHS in each of the last five years.
Answered by Karin Smyth
The following table shows fraud losses in the National Health Service in England, for each of the last five years:
Year | Fraud loss |
2019/20 | £17,400,000 |
2020/21 | £12,400,000 |
2021/22 | £20,700,000 |
2022/23 | £26,400,000 |
2023/24 | £24,200,000 |
Source: NHS Counter Fraud Authority Consolidated Data Report.
Notes:
- figures shown in this table are gross losses that do not include monies subsequently recovered as a result of loss recovery activity; and
- figures shown relate to cases closed in the relevant year.
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