Hospital staff and managers

Nurse manages to have whole family paid by an NHS Trust (UK)

A nursing manager employed by a NHS Trust, who had budgetary responsibility for providing evening nursing services for the trust, managed to defraud the NHS out of £125,000 by adding virtually all of her family onto the trust payroll system. She submitted time sheets in her family's names which showed they were working evening shifts at the trust when in fact, they were not. The family members she added were her daughter, her nephew, her sister and her partner.

The subsequent investigation revealed, amongst many other issues, that all the time sheets bearing the names of her family and submitted to the trust for payment had been authorised by the nursing manager. In doing so, she had used her own genuine signature showing her as the authorising officer, or she had forged the signature of another nurse who worked on the evening service.

Further enquiries showed that some of the claims were made for family members when they were not even in the country.  For example, one family member was on holiday in Cyprus and the Canary Islands during the period of claims.

All five family members were arrested and found guilty at the following trial.