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Medicrime convention brochure published by Council of Europe
The Council of Europe published its brochure ‘The Medicrime Convention : combating counterfeiting of medical products and similar crimes'.
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Researcher accused of scientific misconduct
Following an extensive investigation, Depak Das, a professor in the
Department of Surgery and director of the Cardiovascular Research Center
at the University of Connecticut Health Center, has been accused of
serious scientific misconduct. UConn has informed 11 scientific journals
about the investigation.
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EU evaluates dangerous breast implants
A
caucus of member states has asked the Commission to investigate how many women have received potentially dangerous breast implants from a French company and possible risks posed by the devices
Online tool to challenge health illiteracy
The European Commission this year plans to challenge poor health literacy levels in Europe with a new internet-based tool called Health in Europe: Information and Data Interface.
- Breast implants: UK government says 'no evidence' to remove implants
- Spending cuts undermine healthcare in eastern EU countries
- 40% of hospital drugs administered incorrectly
- 24,000 diabetes deaths a year 'could be avoided'
- European Commission proposes effective measures to better protect citizens from a wide range of cross-border health threats
- We all pay for healthcare fraud and corruption – Act now
- Suspected fraud reported by Northern Irelands government
- Corruption perception index (CPI)
- Glaxo agrees to pay 3 billion dollars over Medicaid pricing
- Struck off chiropractor still working
- Disabled people live in terror of the future
- New convention aims to tackle global counterfeit drug problem
- Age discrimination within NHS
- Twelve countries join the Council of EuropeMedicrime Convention
- Ukraine: European capital for illegal organ transplants
- Few EU states provide medical care for irregular migrants
- Denmark: Electronic Patient Records
- Healthcare innovations in five European countries show the way to combating chronic disease
- Bulgaria and Italy top EU fraud reporting list
- Can an ageing Europe stay competitive in a globalised world?
- Declarations of interest omitted shareholdings
- EU strategy against corruption
- Communiqué on the Occasion of Getting the EHFCN Excellency Award 2011
- Fraud for 270 million euro
- Emergency surgery patients' lives at risk
- NHS should take note of OFT investigation
- New WHO study details low-cost solutions to help curb the tide on noncommunicable diseases
- 'Unnecessary' surgery weighs on EU healthcare costs
- Danish Doctor sentenced to 2 years of imprisonment after treating patients with anorexia with dildos.
- 91 charges of alleged fraud in the U.S. healthcare system
- Romania: President of the National Medicines andMedical Devices Agency, Daniel Boda, was brought to justice for taking bribery
- AstraZeneca reveals payments to US doctors
- Germany: Thanks to a Mainz pharmacist police arrested a suspect for forged prescriptions with a total value of at least 60,000 €
- Romania: Doctors who make healthy patients disabled on paper
- Serbian Minister of Health claims at the National Parliament that he cannot cope with health corruption
- Italy - False blind for 19years, pocketed 112,000 euros.
- Belgium: Better prescribed clinical biology tests
- France: Benefit fraud detected rose by almost 20% in 2010
- The Italian Government declares that money can be saved on healthcare
- Italy: A doctor and two accomplices involved in a car insurance fraud scheme
- Spain: Illegal implants acquired through internet put patients in danger
- Belgian doctor sends girlfriend without any medical training to attend a patient
- Berlin pharmacist defrauded health insurance for Millions of Euros
- Doctor sentenced to three years imprisonment
- Fraud at Philips Mexico arises after KPMG financial accounting
- Dental patients still asked to pay rip-off prices
- UN warns for growing linkage between fraudulent medicines and organized crime
- Open House in Norway concludes with key words of transparency and trust
- NHS loses €3.4 billion a year to fraudsters
- Potentially large benefits fraud in the Netherlands
- UK - Failure to spot blood clots costs the NHS millions
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- Patients could be at risk from unregulated healthcare workers
- INAMI introduces new infobox for pharmacists
- British man jailed after record fake medicine bust
- Johnson & Johnson feels pain of €51.8m bribery fines
- Massive fraud by psychiatrists in the Netherlands
- Half a million 'sick' are fit to work
- Tougher approach to tackle social fraud
- Public patients face up to five-year wait to see a specialist
- Foreign doctors work in Britain without speaking English
- EU health costs rising faster than funding
- European Parliament approves updated version of EU´s Consumer Rights Directive
- New cooperation to combat social fraud
- Romanian MEP expelled over bribery scandal
- Foreign health tourists to be banned from Britain
- Dentist involved in falsified claims
- NHS fraudster must repay € 57,000
- Warning for NHS worker after syphoning money to non-existent care home
- Working Group report lays out WHO role in 'counterfeit' medicines
- Businessman accused of multi-million pound counterfeit medicines plot
- Hungary implements new law against illegal drug peddlers
- UK gang jailed for counterfeit medicines plot
- Millions of surgery patients at risk in drug research fraud scandal
- Andalusian Health Service condemned for the harassment of a doctor who denounced fraud in the surgical waiting lists in Granada
- German police launch AIDS medicine probe
- Serbia's low-cost health-care system breeds corruption
- Difficult to trace fraud with personal budget (PGB)
- New member in the Czech Republic
- The Netherlands - Insurers, the public prosecution and the police start national fight against insurance fraud
- Global Fund against Aids cracks down on fraud
- Final vote paves way for EU cross-border health care
- Barcelona Public Prosecutor asks for six years imprisonment for forging medicine prescriptions
- Cross-border travel speeds up health cooperation between Norway and Russia
- NHS fraud cases 'rise by 37% in the last three years'
- Clearer rules on seeking healthcare abroad
- UK reinforces its reputation as one of world´s least corrupt countries, when Bribery Act comes into force in April 2011
- Spain - Ex-pharmacist is charged for falsifying hundreds of prescriptions
- Romania - An electronic system to curb fraud in the healthcare system
- Scotland: Report on STV website calls for action against prescription fraud
- 20 Largest False Claims Cases of 2010
- People see corruption getting worse but are ready to get involved
- International Anti Corruption Day 2010
- Mother 'faked a brain tumour to cheat well-wishers out of hundreds of pounds'
- Italian government agency INPS selects Teradata and SAS® for enterprise intelligence
- WHO Report calls for countries to improve access to Health Services
- Senior Medicare Patrol Program honored for fraud prevention
- IntegriGuard Recognized in NHCAA's Investigation of the Year Award
- HCI Launches Next-Generation Anti-Fraud, Waste, and Abuse Solution
- Raid on Hamburg doctor suspected fraud
- Report on 10 years Counter Fraud work published in Scotland
- Private doctor to retire without facing 'very serious' charges
- Italy doctors jailed for 'clinic of horrors' operations
- Transparency International: Corruption increases due to the global crises
- Serbian organisation warns about increased risks of corruption in health
- Healthcare corruption costing Greece billions: officials
- 66 people poisoned by following a slimming treatment
- 'Cancer curing coffee' among thousands of seized drugs
- Largest ever USA scam healthcare uncovered
- Corruption in the operation rooms?
- Anti-Fraud Organization Presents Seven Guiding Principles for Regulators and Policy Makers as Health Care Reform is Implemented
- Dentists Hussain and Bachada jailed for NHS fraud conspiracy
- Health Firm Bosses convicted of £1.2m scam
- Federal Government Expands Grassroots Fraud Prevention Effort
- FDA takes action against unapproved single-ingredient oral colchicine
- Medicare's new order for claims: First weigh, then pay
- Defective breast implants: an outsized scale of fraud
- 'Pointless' MS treatment doctor struck off
- EU beefs up medicine surveillance rules
- Arrests of 8 suspects in no-fault insurance fraud scheme
- Scientists fault IMI's medicines project amid funding row
- Scientists fault IMI's medicines project amid funding row
- UK drug regulators want GSK's controversial diabetes pill Avandia pulled from market
- Ministry of Health investigates 81 websites for the illegal sale of medicines
- Anti-corruption academy, billed as first of its kind, opens in Austria
- Former NHS finance chief struck off by ACCA
- Former NHS finance chief struck off by ACCA
- Bristol intensive care ward worker jailed for £96k NHS fraud
- The Human Cost of Fraud
- Accenture: Future health care 'like car insurance'
- Medicare Fraud Strike Force discovers 251 million dollars alleged false billing
- SPD wants to fight healthcare fraud
- Civil servant who claimed dead man's expenses jailed
- China gets tough about healthcare fraud
- Budget cuts will lead to rise in public sector fraud
- OECD Healthcare report: Increased spending v. Efficiency
- INAMI/RIZIV Annual Report
- Transparency demands rigorous control of the “reference primes” (Fangprämien)
- Hospital practice adversely affects specialist doctors
- UK Senior Manager Defrauded NHS
- Online Pharmacy fakes logo
- Affordable Care Act Contains New Tools to combat Health Fraud
- Nurse in court for fraud after being overpaid £32,000
- Transparency International proposes same status for public officials and hospital physicians
- Pharmaceutical companies influence drug trials
- Swedish pharmacists tackle fake medicines
- Recommendation on Good Governance in Health Systems adopted on 31st March 2010
- NHS medical assistant sent to jail for theft
- Bulgaria health minister charged over vaccine contracts
- The first health and social care link goes live
- “Thousands” of NHS beds need to be cut, says new report
- Bribery and fraud – worldwide famous German transplant surgeon imprisoned
- UK Patients win the right to register at any GP surgery
- UK Health trusts snatch millions meant to help family carers
- Counterfeit medicine worth more than 10.5 billion Euros per year
- Man jailed for policy fraud
- EHFCN Awareness Campaign 2009/2010
- Fraud is blamed for cost of insurance policies
- Market: Healthcare
- Brussels commends Dutch approach of counter-fraud management
- Belgian GP suspected of fraud: he paid 5000 visits to one patient over eight years
- Corruption conference opens in Doha
- States urged to use UN Anti-Corruption Treaty to restore integrity in the financial system
- Criminals cashing in on fake swine flu medicines
- New medicine coding system to address the risk of counterfeit medicines
- Scotland: Settlement reached over NHS drugs supply
- Blacklist of physicians and therapists in the Netherlands
- Differences in healthcare expenses
- Belgium partners with neighbours in the fight against social fraud
- Dentist defrauds Belgian healthcare system for 1 million Euros
- European Parliament targets online fake medicines
- Transparency International: Business must counter corruption to foster economic sustainability
- Dutch health system remains best in Europe
- "Swine flu" vaccination: Transparency International criticized potential conflicts of interest and non-transparent decision-making processes
- Pfizer to pay $2.3 Billion in Healthcare Fraud Settlement
- EHFCN signs Memorandum of Understanding with Canadian and American healthcare anti-fraud associations
- Welcome to the new EHFCN website
- Major exporters failing to curb overseas bribery
- Mitigating Corporate Corruption In The Healthcare Industry
- Medicrime convention brochure published by the Council of Europe
- Danish pharmaceutical company accused of bribing the U.S. military
- Anti-corruption: how to fill the gap between law and reality.
- Anti-corruption: how to fill the gap between law and reality.
- Anti-corruption: how to fill the gap between law and reality.
- 'Unnecessary' surgery weighs on EU healthcare costs
- Foreign-trained doctors 'more likely to be struck off'
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