NHS fraudster given jail sentence

Stirling Sheriff Court has issued a three-year jail sentence to a man who was found guilty of stealing £52,000 from the NHS.

Ross Miller, aged 24, siphoned the money into his own bank account after the furniture firm he worked for supplied the NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde with bed fixtures, the BBC reports.

The court heard how Mr Miller contacted the trust to say that here had been problems with the company bank account and requested that the money be diverted into an alternative, which was his own.

Before his deed was discovered in June 2008, he was jailed for ten months for an unrelated charge of theft.

“You deliberately planned this scheme, abusing the trust of your employer and the payments officer at the NHS who you dealt with,” the news provider quotes Sheriff Mary Foran as saying to Mr Miller.

In other NHS news, a Care Quality Commission report rated the Great Western Ambulance Service weakly in categories such as cleanliness, waiting times and patient safety for the third consecutive year.