Health Services: Reciprocal Arrangements

Department of Health and Social Care written question – answered at on 10 December 2018.

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Photo of Jo Stevens Jo Stevens Labour, Cardiff Central

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of the number of cases related to EHIC fraud that were (a) investigated, (b) determined to be a probable case of fraud and (c) determined to be a case of fraud by the NHS Counter Fraud Authority in each year since 2015.

Photo of Stephen Hammond Stephen Hammond Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)

The following table shows the number of European Health Insurance Card (EHIC) fraud case referrals investigated to determine whether a potential fraud has occurred and the number of these referrals determined to be potential fraud cases.

Year

EHIC fraud care referrals

Referrals determined to be potential fraud cases

2015-16

9

0

2016-17

8

0

2017-18

26

3

2018-19

11

0

These activities are undertaken by the Department’s Anti-Fraud Unit, rather than the NHS Counter Fraud Authority. This is because payments relating to EHIC are paid by the Department not the National Health Service.

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