Missing Madeleine
Come join us...there's more inside you cannot see as a guest!

Join the forum, it's quick and easy

Missing Madeleine
Come join us...there's more inside you cannot see as a guest!
Missing Madeleine
Would you like to react to this message? Create an account in a few clicks or log in to continue.

Dentist Jailed For £1.4m NHS Fraud

2 posters

Go down

Dentist Jailed For £1.4m NHS Fraud Empty Dentist Jailed For £1.4m NHS Fraud

Post  Panda Fri 5 Oct - 17:04

Dentist Jailed For £1.4m NHS Fraud


A dentist who conned the NHS out of £1.4m has been jailed for seven years for conspiracy to defraud.


4:01pm UK, Friday 05 October 2012
Dentist Jailed For £1.4m NHS Fraud 15354835-522x293
Trail claimed for false dental work











By Lisa Dowd, Midlands Correspondent

A dentist who conned the NHS out of £1.4m by making false claims for treating patients has been jailed for seven years for conspiracy to defraud.

Between 2006 and 2009, Joyce Trail, from Sutton Coldfield, submitted 7,000 invoices for work she had never done, 100 of which were for patients who were actually dead.

The 50-year-old used patient details, which were unwittingly supplied to her by nursing homes after she contacted them advertising her services, to claim for people she had never met. She also double or triple-claimed for patients she had treated.

Trail was caught during a random check of files at her Birmingham surgery by officials from the NHS Business Services Authority.

When they contacted a supposed patient at a care home, they discovered he had gone private.

When they delved deeper, they found fraud on an industrial scale. They checked 85,000 documents, including patient records and laboratory documents, and 14,000 exhibits to build a case.

After Trail's conviction, Judge Peter Carr said: "You have abused your position as a professional and you abused your position as a dentist.

"You have effectively stolen a large amount of money that was not available to an already overstretched health service".

Robert Lawrence, a dental technician who supplied Trail with dentures, told Sky News that his suspicions were raised when she requested new dentures after six months for some patients, when they should have lasted at least five years.

He explained: "The same patient names were coming through and the new dentures were attached to them.

"Joyce was asking us to make new dentures and when we brought it up with her that these dentures hadn't been worn, we were told: 'Never mind. Mind your own business - just make them.'"

The court was told that Trail spent money on "globetrotting", Jimmy Choo shoes, Cartier jewellery and Prada clothes. She lived in a £1m, six-bedroom gated home.

Her daughter, Nyri Sterling, 33, from Oldbury, West Midlands, who worked in the administration side of the business, was sentenced to two years for helping her mother
Panda
Panda
Platinum Poster
Platinum Poster

Female
Number of posts : 30555
Age : 67
Location : Wales
Warning :
Dentist Jailed For £1.4m NHS Fraud Left_bar_bleue0 / 1000 / 100Dentist Jailed For £1.4m NHS Fraud Right_bar_bleue

Registration date : 2010-03-27

Back to top Go down

Dentist Jailed For £1.4m NHS Fraud Empty Re: Dentist Jailed For £1.4m NHS Fraud

Post  Panda Fri 5 Oct - 17:07

No wonder the NHS is in such a state, are no checks or Audits done ?
Panda
Panda
Platinum Poster
Platinum Poster

Female
Number of posts : 30555
Age : 67
Location : Wales
Warning :
Dentist Jailed For £1.4m NHS Fraud Left_bar_bleue0 / 1000 / 100Dentist Jailed For £1.4m NHS Fraud Right_bar_bleue

Registration date : 2010-03-27

Back to top Go down

Dentist Jailed For £1.4m NHS Fraud Empty Re: Dentist Jailed For £1.4m NHS Fraud

Post  malena stool Fri 5 Oct - 20:19

Panda wrote:No wonder the NHS is in such a state, are no checks or Audits done ?
Seemingly not Panda, but Dentists like Doctors are trusted professionals.....
malena stool
malena stool
Platinum Poster
Platinum Poster

Male
Number of posts : 13924
Location : Spare room above the kitchen
Warning :
Dentist Jailed For £1.4m NHS Fraud Left_bar_bleue0 / 1000 / 100Dentist Jailed For £1.4m NHS Fraud Right_bar_bleue

Registration date : 2009-10-04

Back to top Go down

Dentist Jailed For £1.4m NHS Fraud Empty Re: Dentist Jailed For £1.4m NHS Fraud

Post  Sponsored content


Sponsored content


Back to top Go down

Back to top

- Similar topics

 
Permissions in this forum:
You cannot reply to topics in this forum