Fraud   

FOI REFERENCE: 24403  FOI DATE: 4^th October 2024        

My request relates to money lost to scams by trusts. This relates to scams perpetrated by people who are not employed by the trust and are not its patients.

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust are not aware of any fraud losses

1. The amount during each calendar year for each of the last five years your trust has lost to fraud and scams. This would

  include the year to date as one of those five years.

  2. For each fraud or scam of more than £500 the nature of the fraud or scam, particularly:

  a.    The date the money was lost

  b.    How much was lost

  c.    How the money was lost – the precise methodology the scammers used

  d.    What efforts were made to reclaim the lost funds

  e.    How successful those efforts were.

  f.      Who the perpetrator was if that is known

  Should there be a large number of frauds which qualify for question 2, to the point where costs for the request are

  likely to over-run, I would like the details for the five largest in terms of losses, please.

  For the avoidance of doubt, I am interested in losses of money due to deception. I am not requesting details of losses

  of money or property due to theft, burglary etc.