Fraud Squad series 4 hits screens this month

Returning this week is Fraud Squad, the BBC’s documentary series following dedicated fraud-fighters pursuing the criminals who steal billions from the public purse every year.

This fourth season of the programme includes five stories from the NHS, featuring fraud investigations led by the NHSCFA, NHS England and Improvement and NHS Counter Fraud Service Wales.

Fraud Squad will start on Monday 31 January and there will be four shows before the Winter Olympics, four after. All episodes will air at 10am on BBC1 and will be available on iPlayer for a limited time afterwards – see below for a full schedule of episodes featuring the NHS.

Table showing the planned broadcast schedule of the BBC’s Fraud Squad

Broadcast date	Investigated by	Criminal	Fraud type	Victims
Monday 31 January 2022	NHS England	Jamie Kasebante, assistant project manager, NHSEI	Theft charges. Abused NHSEI corporate travel booking system and kept NHS property	NHSEI
Tuesday 1 February 2022	NHS Counter Fraud Service Wales	Dr Aled Jones, hospital doctor	Gambler who committed timesheet frauds against NHS and stole death certificate fees from individuals	Various South Wales health boards and colleagues at University Hospital Wales
Thursday 24 February 2022	NHS England	Sheila Loveridge, Senior nurse, 8c infection prevention control inspector	Working while sick fraud (claimed unable to work due to back problem)	North East London Commissioning Support Unit
Friday 25 February 2022	NHS Counter Fraud	Barry Stannard, IT Manager	Procurement fraud, invoicing his employer for non-existent	Mid Essex Hospital Trust

The Fraud Squad Series 3 audience share averaged 22% in May last year – the highest weekly average of 2021 in that slot. There is a good chance the new series will again pull in a million viewers per episode.

NHSCFA’s CEO Alex Rothwell says:

“I know a tremendous amount of work and thought has gone into these episodes from colleagues in and beyond NHSCFA. I am really looking forward to watching the new series of ‘Fraud Squad’ and want all of us to be shouting it from the rooftops, and thinking creatively about how we can use it as an extra turbine to power our work in many areas”.

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