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Healthcare Security HAPPY ➬ ‘The EU is reducing the space where terrorists can operate: making it harder for them to travel, to train, to get money, weapons and explosives.’ European Commission Commissioner for the Security Union, Julian King. continued ... from page 30 Reporting System (SIRS) to record all theft or criminal damage (including burglary, arson and vandalism) to property and assets. The aim was to inform NHS Protect’s prevention and deterrence work, help identify trends, generate statistics and build a national picture. However, that NHS central security management body didn’t have direct authority over local trusts and could only invite them to submit information. Whilst some NHS trusts were obliging, history shows that many failed to co-operate. As a result of inability to impose a national NHS strategy to protect and secure assets, the way NHS assets are purchased, distributed, used and audited continues to vary from one organisation to another and practices can even vary between departments! Accounting rules Another problem were accounting rules, which define ‘assets’ in purely financial terms as items with a value over £5,000. Many NHS bodies only include items of this value or above on their asset registers, leaving smaller, portable, valuable items without any security protection, management or audit. This protocol is all the more ridiculous when you consider that a laptop with a value of only a couple of hundred quid could hold sensitive information on patients which, if stolen, could result in fines of hundreds of thousands imposed by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). As a result of these shortcomings, it was impossible for the NHS Security Management Service to accurately identify the total value of stolen assets or assess ‘total’ costs of thefts (not just the monetary value but impact on ability to provide care services to patients including, delays in operations). Cost of fraud Fraud is theft involving deception. The Fraud Act 2006 introduced three ways of committing fraud: by false representation; failing to disclose information; and by abuse of position. Fraud can include claiming for work that does not exist: professionals creating ghost patients, altering prescriptions, claiming for out of hours visits, working elsewhere while off sick or masquerading as other staff; patients altering prescriptions’ managers making fake timesheet and payroll claims; and suppliers submitting bogus invoices. Claiming for higher value items; professionals dispensing a cheaper product than claimed for, or altering patient treatment details. Securing materials or services on false premises; professionals secure student bursaries; claiming for excess car mileage; falsifying credentials for applications or procurement; patients obtaining controlled drugs. And insider theft; of prescription forms or inventory. How much? NHS Protect has never published an estimate of the total losses from fraud across the NHS. However, during 2007-2008, NHS Protect carried out extensive loss analysis exercises to qualify the nature and scale of ‘patient charges evasion’ in England and Wales, which resulted in an estimate of about £156m. During 2009-2010, NHS Protect evaluated the potential loss NHS attributable to dental services fraud as about £73.2m in England. These ‘findings’ were reproduced in official statistics published by the UK’s National Fraud Authority Indicator 2013 which suggested fraud within the NHS was costing about £229m per year (that is, patient charges evasion - £156m, and NHS dental charges fraud - £73m). However, since that £229m was only the sum of the two referenced indicators, it cannot possibly represent anything like the ‘total’. In March 2014, a report by accountancy firm BDO, working with the Centre for Counter Fraud Studies (CCFS) at the University of Portsmouth, suggested fraud in the NHS was actually costing about £5 billion a year; and that the NHS was losing another £2 billion a year as a result of its own accounting errors (where the NHS makes overpayments by mistake to suppliers or staff). Seven billion is more than 20 times the amount indicated by the Government figures - and represents almost 7pc of the total annual NHS budget - enough to pay for another 250,000 nurses or fund the cancer care! The £7 billion was apparently an extrapolation based on estimated ‘global figures’ that were based upon ‘the most accurate measures of fraud conducted on healthcare spend from six countries ‘in a variety of different types of expenditure’, which taken together indicated average losses to fraud and error of just under 7pc of total budgets. So, by comparison, the official figure of £229m would suggest that the NHS is doing more than 30 times better than the rest of the world in preventing and detecting fraud and error! What Department says In a statement, the Department of Health also said it ‘did not recognise’ the figures in the BDO report, or ‘speculate on levels of losses’ and that NHS Protect had a ‘significant budget’ and ‘protects and safeguards frontline NHS services’. Whichever way you choose to look at it, the NHS is being drained of an awful lot of money by fraudsters that could and should be being spent on healthcare services and the total losses could be billions. Prof Mark Button, Director of Portsmouth’s Centre for Counter Fraud Studies, said: “By highlighting the problem and countering fraud effectively, the NHS would reduce losses and free up massive resources for better patient care. Healthcare organisations need to prioritise the problem and invest money in the right areas. Previous studies of counter fraud exercises have shown that it is possible to significantly reduce the losses with a reduction of 40pc within 12 months being considered a very reasonable expectation.” It would make more sense to (substantially) raise spend on counter fraud activities rather than reduce it year on year, which is what has been happening. Once again, I ask, if an organisation doesn’t have accurate information about the nature and scale of its losses, how can it determine how much to invest in loss prevention? p 32 NOVEMBER 2017 PROFESSIONAL SECURITY www.professionalsecurity.co.uk p30,32 JimODnhs <strong>27</strong>-11.indd 2 12/10/2017 10:45
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