Asked by: Anne-Marie Trevelyan (Conservative - Berwick-upon-Tweed)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, which companies hold the contracts for NHS Protect and related counter-fraud investigations; what the value of those contracts is; and how much revenue those contracts produce in recouped funds and fines.
Answered by Philip Dunne
NHS Protect is the National Health Service body responsible for co-ordinating anti-crime work in the NHS in England. Contracts for the delivery of counter fraud services at a local level are negotiated by individual NHS bodies and information on these is not held centrally. The latest performance information on both NHS Protect and Local Counter Fraud Specialists is available in the NHS Protect Annual Report 2015-16 at:
http://www.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/Documents/CounterFraud/Annual_Report2015-16.pdf
Asked by: Anne-Marie Trevelyan (Conservative - Berwick-upon-Tweed)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what NHS England's policy is on keeping whistleblowers informed of the status of ongoing investigations.
Answered by Philip Dunne
NHS England has provided the following response.
Where a whistleblower raises a concern with NHS England and provides contact details, it is anticipated that NHS England’s investigator will have contact with the whistleblower throughout any subsequent investigation into the concerns raised. This is done to ensure that the investigator manages the expectations of the individual who raised the concern and provide information on the action being taken.
Where NHS England employees raise concerns with NHS England internally under the ‘Voicing your concerns for staff (Whistleblowing) Policy and Procedure’, NHS England keeps those employees informed of the status of ongoing investigations.