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to improve European healthcare systems by reducing losses to fraud and corruption.
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Stamp out fraud for everyone's benefit
56 billion Euros are lost every year to healthcare fraud alone and more is probably lost to corruption. Across Europe this represents a loss of at least 150 million Euros per DAY.
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In the news
Management of OLAF: a problem for the new EC anti-fraud commissioner?
In 2009, according to a Eurobarometer survey, 78% of Europeans felt that corruption is a major problem in their country.
Read more2010 European year for combating poverty and social exclusion
EHFCN would like to support this year and this European campaign as it has identified that a basic right to healthcare is often impeded by regular occurrences of fraud and corruption.
Read moreCounterfeit medicine worth more than 10.5 billion Euros per year
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Gabriel Bacq (CNAMTS Deputy Director International Relations) talks about the French anti-fraud developments, its history and EHFCN.
Fraud and corruption in the healthcare sector
Annual healthcare spending across the 27 countries of the European Union totals approximately one trillion Euros.
Recent figures estimate that at least €150 million are lost every day to healthcare fraud and corruption in the European Union.
Fraud and corruption activities can take place in any healthcare systems, whether they are predominantly public or private, well funded or poorly funded, and in any area of healthcare delivery. Read more