Examples of fraud and corruption in the healthcare sector

In every country across the European Union, the vast majority of staff and practitioners working in healthcare services are honest, hard working individuals, who are committed to their national healthcare services.

This majority have to work together to ensure that the small minority, who are intent on perpetrating fraud and diverting funds from frontline healthcare services are stopped.

The aim of EHFCN is to improve European healthcare systems by reducing losses to fraud and corruption.  

In this section you will find a few examples which highlight the kind of problems that can be encountered.