Prescriptions: Fraud

(asked on 3rd July 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the cost to the public purse has been of prescription fraud in the 2017-18 financial year.


Answered by
Seema Kennedy Portrait
Seema Kennedy
This question was answered on 8th July 2019

The loss to the National Health Service caused by prescription fraud was £162 million in 2017-18, as assessed by the NHS Counter Fraud Authority in the 2019 Strategic Intelligence Assessment.

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