“The National Health Service continues to be subject to significant restructuring to be better able to deliver the government’s “NHS Plan” and to use its resources more effectively. Against this background of change, I urge the Department of Health to make every effort to ensure that risk-management arrangements are fully in place and these are operating effectively across the NHS as soon as possible.
“I commend the progress made by the Department in tackling fraud so far and developing an anti-fraud culture within the NHS. However, there is a need for the Department to complete fraud measurement exercises across all areas of NHS expenditure I encourage the Department to take steps as soon as possible to measure the full extent of the fraud being committed and to set new targets to demonstrate the success of their efforts in countering fraud.”