The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 272 No 7287 p208
21 February 2004

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Prescription fraud down

Losses from pharmaceutical patient fraud (prescription fraud) have fallen by 60 per cent. The NHS Counter Fraud and Security Management Service says losses have fallen from £117m a year in 1998–99 to £47m a year in 2002–03.