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Wales Man Faked Drug Overdose to Enjoy Hospital Facilities
August 30, 2007 at 5:48 PM
Hospital News
But over there in Wales a man faked drug overdoses so that he could use hospital A&E (Accident and Emergency) wards 'like hotels,' authorities say.
He has now been served with an Asbo (anti-social behaviour order), which would in effect restrict his access to health services.
Mark Smith, 33, from Powys, Wales, visited hospitals on hundreds of occasions over a 14-year period costing the NHS an estimated Ģ117,000.
He will now need to obtain written permission or to pre-arrange an appointment before he is allowed to set foot on NHS premises, except in an emergency.
It is only the second time an Asbo had been issued for such an offence. It has been applied for an indefinite period, but is not applicable in Scotland.
The NHS Counter Fraud Service was alerted to Smith's actions after a tip-off in January last year. The service said Smith had visited A&E departments in major cities on at least 320 occasions between 1993 and 2007.
It is alleged that he misused hospitals in Cardiff, Bristol, Birmingham, Glasgow, Liverpool, London, and Manchester.
Dermid McCaufland, acting managing director of the NHS Counter Fraud Service, said the systematic abuse of the NHS was completely unacceptable. 'Not only did he use hospitals as hotels and ambulances as a taxi service, he harassed staff and patients,' he said.
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