Strategic Intelligence Assessment

The NHSCFA completes its yearly strategic intelligence assessment in order to provide an estimate of fraud losses, to identify potential threats, vulnerabilities and enablers and measure the risk of fraud to the NHS alongside the NHSCFA’s ability as an organisation to mitigate this risk.

Published: 22/07/2022

Our assessment of the NHS’s financial vulnerability to fraud in 13 key areas.

Alex Rothwell, Chief Executive Officer of the NHSCFA, introduces the 2022 Strategic Intelligence Assessment.

A brief overview of the NHS’s overall vulnerability to fraud, bribery and corruption.

Why the NHSCFA produces an annual strategic intelligence assessment, and how the content should be interpreted.

How the pandemic has affected fraud reporting levels, the accuracy of activity data and the level of resources to combat fraud.

Our approach to assessing how financially vulnerable the NHS is to fraud.

Levels of fraud reporting received by the NHSCFA compared to previous periods.

Read the NHSCFA’s annual assessments of the NHS’s financial vulnerability to fraud from 2016-17 onwards.

We estimate that the NHS is vulnerable to £1.198 billion worth of fraud each year.

Report any suspicions or concerns about fraud against the NHS to the NHSCFA.