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Fraud Squad
Overview
Following the investigators tracking down the criminals who steal £1.25 billion every year from the NHS - from organised crime rings to NHS staff themselves.
Status
Returning Series
Network
BBC One
Seasons & Episodes
NHS
Episodes
Episode 1
Investigators are on the case of a hospital worker who has stolen vital surgical equipment worth over £1 million to sell online. Elsewhere, a student nurse swindles thousands of pounds from the NHS to splash out on plastic surgery and foreign holidays.
Episode 2
Investigators are on the trail of a global scam that has conned a series of NHS hospitals out of over £12.5 million, and a hospital cashier leads the high life - taking money meant for patients and putting it in to her own bank account.
Episode 3
A locksmith sees pound signs when he is put in charge of a London hospital - and pockets nearly half a million pounds by overcharging the hospital for supplies. Elsewhere, an NHS manager dreams up a scam to siphon over £800,000 of NHS money into his own account.
Episode 4
Investigators uncover an abuse of public money when an NHS manager and his friends conspire to take a quarter of a million pounds - money meant to pay for dialysis equipment for patients. Plus the case of a man who for six years claimed the NHS pension of his dead aunt.
Episode 5
An accounts worker siphons £642,000 of NHS money into personal bank accounts, and a GP practice manager fakes emails to award himself a pay rise.
Top Cast
Michelle Ackerley
Self - Presenter
