Dentist jailed for fraud on an ‘industrial scale’
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- Published: Monday, 08 October 2012 08:20
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West Midlands dentist Joyce Trail has been jailed for seven years for conspiracy to defraud, Her offences mainly involved denture work for older people in care homes.. Between 2006 and 2009 she submitted 7,000 invoices for work she had never done, 100 of which were for patients who were actually dead. She managed to extract £1.4 million from the NHS through fraud. |
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The 50-year-old used patient details, which were unwittingly supplied to her by nursing homes after she contacted them advertising her services, to claim for people she had never met. She also double or triple-claimed for patients she had treated.
She was caught during a random check of files at her Birmingham surgery by officials from the NHS Business Services Authority. They delved deeper and found fraud on an industrial scale. They checked 85,000 documents, including patient records and laboratory documents, and 14,000 exhibits to build a case.
After Trail's conviction, Judge Peter Carr said: "You have abused your position as a professional and you abused your position as a dentist. You have effectively stolen a large amount of money that was not available to an already overstretched health service."
Trail’s daughter, Nyri Sterling, 33, from Oldbury, West Midlands, who worked in the administration side of the business, was also sentenced to two years for helping her mother.
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