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Evaluation of fraud e-learning module
The Trust’s nominated Anti-Fraud Specialist, Phillip Leong, needs your help to evaluate the effectiveness of the fraud, bribery and corruption awareness e-learning module, which all new and existing staff (every three years) are required to complete. Once you have successfully completed the module, before exiting, please click on the link to answer a short (five multiple choice questions) survey. If you recently (within the last three months) completed the module and did not complete the survey, you can do so now by clicking this link: https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/TLCWGLJ. If you have any specific comments or questions on the training, please contact phillip.leong@miaa.nhs.uk.
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Crime Awareness Stands
The Trust’s Anti-Fraud Specialist Phillip Leong and the Security Team are manning display stands at Trust sites this Summer to raise awareness of fraud and security. On Monday 8 August, they will be at the main entrances of Royal Liverpool University Hospital from 9:00-11:30am and Broadgreen Hospital from 12:30 to 3:00pm; and on Tuesday 9 August, they will be at the main entrance of Aintree University Hospital from 10:00-1:00pm. All staff are encouraged, when free and available, to pop along and ask any questions they may have on any fraud and security-related issues, or even just to pick up a free pen!
MIAA – Trust Providers of Internal Audit and Anti-Fraud Services
MIAA (Mersey Internal Audit Agency) provide Internal Audit and Anti-Fraud Services to the Trust and are the predominant provider of these services to the NHS in the North West.
If you have any suspicions, issues or concerns regarding fraud, bribery or corruption, please contact your Anti-Fraud Specialist, Phillip Leong, who can be contacted on 07721 237352 or by email to phillip.leong@miaa.nhs.uk or phillip.leong@nhs.net. Your concerns can also be reported directly to the Chief Finance Officer Robert Forster or the national Fraud and Corruption Reporting Line 0800 028 4060 (online at https://cfa.nhs.uk/reportfraud). For further information, please refer to the Trust’s Anti-Fraud, Bribery and Corruption Policy.
Alternatively please refer to the Trust’s Freedom to Speak up Policy for information on raising concerns, including fraud concerns. The Trust’s Freedom to Speak Up Guardian (FTSUG), Lorraine Heaton (mobile 07794 071021), is available to provide independent, impartial advice and support in relation to raising concerns.
Any information given will be treated in the strictest confidence. Remember that we all work for, use, &/or pay toward the NHS through our taxes so we should not tolerate fraud or turn a blind eye if we spot it.
MIAA Recent Fraud Cases Article
Mersey Internal Audit Agency has published its latest article highlighting some recent successful NHS fraud cases. The cases featured in this article include a consultant doctor who was struck off after falsely claiming nearly £30k worth of shifts when he was out of the country, following an MIAA investigation, a former GP Practice Manager who was sentenced to three years in prison for fraudulently transferring £324k from practice funds to her own bank account, and a dental manager who was sentenced to six years and nine months in prison for fraudulently transferring nearly £283k from practice funds to her own bank account.
The Trust is committed to pursuing all available sanctions and redress against those found to have committed fraud against it, including criminal prosecution, disciplinary action, regulatory body sanction (where applicable) and financial recovery of monies lost. To report fraud, bribery or corruption, please contact Phillip Leong, Anti-Fraud Specialist (by emailing phillip.leong@miaa.nhs.uk) or the national Fraud and Corruption Reporting Line 0800 028 4060 (online at https://cfa.nhs.uk/reportfraud).
