FRAUD AND CORRUPTION MAJOR PROBLEM IN EU HEALTH CARE SYSTEMS
October 1st, 2009
BY KEITH NUTHALL
AWARENESS amongst British nurses, especially senior nurses, of fraud and corruption in the National Health Service (NHS), is high today - thanks in part to the NHS' Counter Fraud and Security Management Service (CFSMS). Its work has encouraged honest nurses to blow the whistle on such crimes in British healthcare systems, and has recently been praised by the European Healthcare Fraud and Corruption Network (EHFCN), which was formed in 2005 to fight the problem across Europe.
For, it seems, wherever nurses may work in the 27 member states of the ...
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