15.11.10
NHS at risk from fraud, says UNISON
The public workers union UNISON has said that job cuts could make the NHS a soft target for fraud.
The union has therefore asked the government to go back to the ‘drawing board’ in its efforts to redesign services.
Peter Chapman UNISON Regional Organiser for the Counter Fraud Service CFSMS, said: “These cuts will expose the NHS to fraud, and, ultimately, that will hit patient care. These proposals have not been properly thought through, and there is no clear business case.
“Nor do they in any way take into account the dangers faced from the massive restructuring of the NHS currently proposed. This will devolve the bulk of the NHS budget to clinicians, who are neither financially trained nor fraud aware, and could turn the NHS into a soft target for fraud.”
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