Zembla: research into health care fraud UMC Utrecht

Gepubliceerd op 1 juni 2016 om 14:36

The inspection of SOCIAL AFFAIRS and EMPLOYMENT and the national investigating fraud with make declarations in the University Medical Center Utrecht. The television program Zembla reported tonight.

Inspection and parquet don't want to confirm, but Zembla relies on various sources in and outside the hospital. UMC says nothing of the investigation to know and can therefore not respond to it.

The research of the two pursuers results according to the tv program from the same anonymous reporting of employees of ENT Department, which did a lot of dust at the end of last year. In addition, eenangstcultuur to the light and revealed that two fatal expired inspection operations were not reported.

Increased surveillance in the form of Two months back, the Dutch health care Inspectorate (IGZ) UMC subject to increased surveillance, after it emerged that the doctor was allowed to resume his work before the inspection-investigations were finished. The reports are expected around the summer. The former ENT head resigned in January back, down more after doctors in training indicated no longer trust him.

The fraud to which parquet and the inspection, should also do research on the ENT Department. There were three hundred treatments administrative launched by a staff member in the name of a colleague, while those patients do not actually seen.


Unsafe The program reports that anesthesiologists of the Wilhelmina children's Hospital, part of the University Medical Center, the Counselor stepped to complain about patient-unsafe situations. So would one anestesioloog from cost considerations at the same time, two risk patients under his care. A spokesman for the Hospital says that ' according to the guidelines '. They would not say if that means, that the offending situation with two risk patients does not occur.

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