The vision of the NHSCFA is to work together to understand, find and prevent fraud, bribery and corruption in the NHS, and return money back to NHS funds where it has been the subject of a fraud attack. The deliverables in this business plan will help to achieve this vision, meaning less funds are lost to fraud and more spent on frontline health care services.
The work of the NHSCFA aims to support growth in the health sector by reducing the restrictions and friction to growth from resources and funds lost to fraud. The impact of fraud affects front line delivery and the efforts of the NHSCFA will help the sector and stakeholders to:
- broaden understanding of and get better engagement on counter fraud messages to increase fraud prevention activity across the sector
- benefit from analysis of big data sets to detect and prevent fraud, supporting stakeholders to take early and proactive action
- drive forward the use of initial fraud risk impact assessments for new large scale initiatives to ensure that systems are not vulnerable to fraud and that controls identified are effectively monitored
- continue to benefit from the fast dissemination of intelligence to support new and existing stakeholders across the health sector to respond to new and emerging threats
- drive positive action to deter and prevent fraud from occurring and where fraud has occurred, take appropriate enforcement action with our stakeholders
- help drive financial efficiency and direct financial benefit within the NHS by preventing funds intended for patient care being subject to fraud attack and, where fraud has occurred, take all steps to recover funds lost and return them back to the NHS
- improve performance against the government’s counter fraud functional standards
- utilise counter fraud and financial performance data to drive more counter fraud activity ensuring funds remain within healthcare setting and are not lost to fraud, bribery or corruption