Fraudsters have stolen more than £100 million from the NHS in the past five years, exploiting weak IT systems for various crimes like credit card theft and email hacking.
The Independent's revelations indicate that scams have cost the NHS an amount equivalent to funding over 2,000 senior nurses for a year, or over 20,000 cancer radiotherapy rounds.
Experts call the NHS fraud losses inexcusable, considering the already overstretched health service, urging better protective measures against these criminal activities.
The investigation uncovered that individual trusts, like University Hospitals Bristol, have faced significant losses through scams, sparking a call to safeguard against email impersonation and fraudulent transfers.
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