NHS 'saves millions' by cracking down on fraud

NHS 'saves millions' by cracking down on fraud

Extract from the report:

"The NHS has saved 811 million pounds by cracking down on fraud, official figures released recently show.In the last eight years the service has launched a concerted effort to dispel fraud, and since 1999 patient fraud has fallen by a full 55 per cent, the figures from the NHS Counter Fraud Service indicate.And fraud by NHS workers themselves has fallen by 60 per cent, the service claims."

The most pernicious, widespread and catastrophically damaging fraud perpetrated almost universally throughout the health service is the unsubstantiated and constantly reiterated claim that obesity is caused by over-eating and can be remedied or reduced by reducing calorie intake. And the money savings bruited in this report pale into insignificance when compared with the vast waste of money and resources expended both by the NHS and by individual patients because of these false claims as to obesity's causes and remedies. But the greatest cost is, of course, the needless suffering and shortened lives of the victims of this medical negligence...)o:

Obesity is caused by fluid retention, not by over-eating, and the most severe cases of obesity are most commonly caused by inappropriate prescribing and poor or non-existant monitoring, of certain steroids, HRT, anti-depressants and other drugs, often in high dose, by NHS doctors who should know better, but don't...)o:

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