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<p>The number of fraud cases investigated in the NHS has risen by 37% in the last three years amid the economic downturn, official figures have revealed.</p>
<p>Data from the NHS Counter Fraud Service showed the amount of cases of potential fraud detected and probed increased from 351 in 2007/8 to 415 in 2008/9 and 482 in 2009/10.</p>
<p>The value of fraud and unlawful action identified was £4.1m in 2007/8, £16.2 in 2008/9 and £10.9 in 2009/10.</p>
<p>The types of fraud committed varied enormously, the organisation said, but recurrent kinds of fraud related to staff and professionals claiming money for shifts not worked, known as &#8220;timesheet fraud&#8221; and employees working in unauthorised jobs while on sick leave.</p>
<p>Other categories included patients who might try to avoid paying prescriptions by falsely claiming exemptions or using aliases to obtain drugs; professionals altering prescriptions or creating &#8220;ghost patients&#8221; and contractors or suppliers attempting to exaggerate records of NHS work.</p>
<p>Allan Carter, head of operations at NHS Counter Fraud Service, told The Times: &#8220;Undoubtedly in times of recession people will look to maximise their opportunities. And when you look at the case numbers it might seem that way.&#8221;</p>
<p>He said the service had recovered more than £65 million to date.</p>
<p>One case investigated related to a former senior NHS manager who doctored invoices totalling more than £200,000 to pay for the running of her stud farm business.</p>
<p>Louise Tomkins, 48, of Faygate, West Sussex, was jailed for two years and nine months in June 2010 at Southwark Crown Court.</p>
<p>The court heard she fraudulently signed off NHS payments running to £201,333.27 to fund the upkeep of thoroughbreds and pay for horse semen, breaching the trust of her employers.</p>
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