MIAA Fraud team launch ‘Talking Fraud’ Podcast

The MIAA fraud team have launched their latest product, a fraud podcast. Designed to provide a light-hearted and informative view of fraud in the NHS and also the wider issues that can impact us all.

Darrell Davies, MIAA’s Regional Assurance Director (Anti-Fraud) said: “There are so many anti-fraud messages to get out there. We are always looking for innovative ways to engage with our audience and creating a series of podcasts seems like a great opportunity to do this.”

MIAA’s anti-fraud team have many years of experience in investigating fraud across a range of organisations. Darrell is joined by his colleagues, senior anti-fraud managers, Paul Bell, Claire Smallman and Anti-Fraud Manager, Kevin Howells to discuss all aspects of fraud and fraud prevention.

Darrell continued: “Fraud can be committed by anyone, from patients who should be paying for their prescribed drugs; to staff and contractors who have submitted timesheets or invoices for work that they haven’t done; to external fraudsters who attempt to commit bank mandate fraud by pretending to be a genuine supplier and then deceive the NHS organisation into paying invoices into an account controlled by the fraudster.”

The first Episode, “NHS Fraud – what’s the problem?”, examines how the NHS Counter Fraud function came into place and what the current NHS counter-fraud situation looks like now with Covid-related and cyber enabled fraud becoming more prevalent.

Future episodes look at the work of the anti-fraud team and the learning from a few interesting cases, looking at the methods and motivations of fraudsters and the outcomes for them when they are caught.

You can download the podcast from Spotify, Apple Music and all streaming platforms.

Or watch the first episode here