‘How can you manage it if you can’t measure it?’

Understanding the nature and scale of the problem is a first and critical step, fundamental to the development of any counter fraud strategy, says Jill Abethell , Director of Risk Measurement, NHS Counter Fraud and Security Management Service . Every organisation should strive for a robust measure of the amount of fraud that exists and a prioritised action plan for dealing with it. Without this, you will never be sure that you are correctly prioritising your counter fraud action and targeting available resources at the areas most at risk of losses to fraud.

For further details on how the NHS CFSMS’s Risk Measurement Unit could help you, please contact Jill Abethell, Director of Risk Measurement, on tel: 020 7895 4591 or email: jill.abethell@cfsms.nhs.uk.

The NHS Counter Fraud and Security Management Service (NHS CFSMS) has taken a comprehensive approach to ensuring that fraud is reduced to an absolute minimum. Central to this process is a risk measurement methodology which the National Audit Office has examined and is satisfied provides a sound basis for estimating the likely level of fraud. (This has confirmed the high degree of accuracy –a precision rate of up to +/- 0.6%.)