Types of fraud involving this category
Patient charge evasion
This relates to someone who is dishonestly evading payment for chargeable NHS costs. For example, prescriptions, dental treatment and optical services.
Prescription
This relates to someone who is evading payment for prescription charges by deliberately misrepresenting their circumstances.
Dental
This relates to someone who is evading payment for dental treatment by deliberately misrepresenting their circumstances.
Optical
This relates to someone who is evading payment for optical services by deliberately misrepresenting their circumstances.
Misuse of prescriptions
This relates to prescriptions that have been forged, stolen, altered or used by someone other than the named patient.
Stolen
This relates to stolen prescriptions.
Altered/amended
This relates to a genuine prescription that has been falsified in some manner by adding or changing something on it.
Counterfeit
This relates to counterfeit prescriptions produced with intent to deceive.
Used by someone else
This relates to prescriptions used by someone other than the intended patient.
Multi-registration
This relates to someone registering at different practices using their own identity or an alias, to obtain excess NHS medication or services.
Obtained for another
This relates to NHS medication obtained for an NHS patient being provided to someone else, including selling, exchanging or sending abroad.
Lost
This relates to an NHS prescription form being reported as lost by a patient.
Misuse of services/drugs
This relates to someone who is not using NHS services or medication appropriately. They may have lied about themselves, their symptoms or identity to obtain medication. For example, to get temporary GP registration to obtain drugs or be obtaining NHS medication for an improper purpose such as to sell or send abroad.
False symptoms
This relates to someone misrepresenting their medical condition in order to get admitted into NHS care, use ambulance services or obtain medication.
NHS additional funding
This relates to additional funding paid by the NHS for help and care where there are concerns about the legitimacy of the claim or the way that the money is spent.
Payment in lieu
This relates to someone who is in receipt of direct payments for healthcare, usually paid via an NHS personal health budget, that they are not entitled to.
Funded healthcare
This relates to dishonestly obtained funding for a package of care provided by the NHS to meet ongoing health care needs outside a hospital setting. For example, continuing healthcare funding.
Travel costs
This relates to someone who is claiming NHS funding for travel to hospital which they are not entitled to.
Compensation
This relates to someone who has lied or provided false information in order to claim compensation from the NHS.
Registration details
This relates to someone who has used false information about themselves in order to register for NHS services.
Registered identity false
This relates to someone who has used the identity of another person for the purposes of registering as an NHS patient to access NHS services.
Registration address false
This relates to someone who has registered for NHS services using an address where they are not a resident.