FOI Request
- Disclosure ID
- FOI/02348
- Request Date
- April 11, 2018
- Subject
- Fraud
- Description
Pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act 2000 please can you advise me whether anyone who works for your organisation has, to the best of your knowledge, been found guilty of defrauding the NHS.
If the answer is ‘yes’ then please can you provide me with their name, and direct me as to where I may be able to obtain information about the conviction.
- Response
Should any employee breach their employment contract in respect of fraudulent activity, they would be subject to the disciplinary policy, classified under gross misconduct. Due to the serious nature of fraud allegations against members of staff, we would always make our Local Counter Fraud Specialist aware of any allegation in case of pursuance of a criminal matter.
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals take all allegations of fraud very seriously. The Trust’s Local Counter Fraud Specialist works to the criminal standard, as such staff investigations conducted in 2015/16, 2016/17 and 2017/18 have resulted in sanctions equating to formal criminal records. However, such cases were not conducted in the public domain; therefore the personal details of the investigative subjects will remain confidential.
The information you have requested relates to a very small number of individuals and is classed as personal data. To provide further detail may breach their confidentiality and therefore we are exempting this information under section 40(2) of the FOI Act.