Dentist treating "dead souls"

English dentist set a record in the number of "dead souls" when he decided to write his patients more than 1700 pensioners. None of them have not seen this doctor, and some indeed were long dead.

64-year-old Edmund Jacque from Suffolk County received a half years in prison after he became aware of the fraud with the money of the Fund of obligatory medical insurance NHS. The agency pays dentists reception and treatment of people who require assistance for medical reasons. Most often compensates for NHS dentists treatment of pensioners.

Dr. Jacques decided to significantly increase its base of patients due to the so-called " Dead Souls "- People who have never received treatment from him, but were reporting. From June 2009 to March 2011 NHS paid the doctor of dental services to more than 1 700 patients of old age. And Dentist   especially not with the selection of names - it just took a list of all the elderly living in nursing homes, which he attended in several counties, and automatically record them in their patients.

"He took the payroll of nursing home residents, filled on all cards with fictional problems and wrote down the results of the treatment, but no cure no one was carried out, - he told the court the prosecutor Andrew Shaw. - Moreover, Mr. Jacques did not even bother to get fresh announcements, and many of the so-called "patients" by the time the new seals or dental implants have long been dead. "

NHS alerted such a huge number of patients declared a dentist who specializes in helping the elderly with dementia. Police searched his home and found numerous blank forms, which Dentist   Different training to forge signatures. Now the doctor forever lose the license returns NHS 80 thousand pounds and spend 8 months in prison. The defendant fully repented and told that his gripping "a feeling of deep, genuine shame." (READ MORE)

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