LONDON, UK: Over the last seventeen years, a dentist from North London has claimed almost £780,000 from the National Health Service for dental services he did not provide. Last Friday, the Blackfriars Crown Court sentenced the 67-year-old to prison for three years.
He has also been suspended from the General Dental Council register for 18 months.
According to the NHS Protect investigation, over 90 per cent of patients he claimed to have treated in his practice in Kentish Town between 1997 and 2013 could not be accounted for.
Also, hundreds of addresses in his records either did not exist or were registered to businesses or banks.
To cover his tracks, he falsified dental prescriptions using an official docket and changed treatment dates and details on dental record cards.
The dentist admitted to false accounting and fraud by false representation.
He has also paid back over 90 per cent of the claimed money to the service.
Fraud, including dentists claiming money for NHS care they did not carry out, costs the service more than five billion pounds a year, according to reports.
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