Does fraud really cost NHS £5bn a year?
Fraud is costing the NHS £5bn a year, with a further £2bn lost to errors, the former head of its anti-fraud section has suggested in a report he co-authored.
The amount estimated by Jim Gee, who led the NHS anti-fraud section for eight years, is 20 times that recorded in the government's annual fraud indicator report.
He spoke to BBC Breakfast to explain how the figures had been calculated.
24 Mar 2014
- From the section Health