NHS manager known as 'Dodgy Hodgy' swindled taxpayers out of hundreds of thousands of pounds with bogus invoices and lavished £15,000 on Chelsea tickets and a £6,000 party

A NHS supervisor often called 'Dodgy Hodgy' by his friends swindled taxpayers out of lots of of hundreds of kilos by bogus invoices.

Alan Hodge was in control of sustaining dialysis gear however in cahoots with three contractors submitted over 200 faux invoices to a south London NHS belief.

The ringleader inflated costs, charged for work that was not achieved or didn't want doing over a five-year interval. 

Alan Hodge, pictured right here along with his accomplice Lisa Inexperienced, left, had been each concerned in a long-running rip-off to defraud the NHS by submitted bogus invoices to a South London Belief

Hodge authorised the fee of £388,023.58 to Pierre Allen, pictured, by his firm

Stephen Thompson, pictured, obtained nearly £118,045.69 between 2007 and 2013

NHS fraud investigators couldn't put an actual determine on the frauds as a result of they had been deemed too intensive and sophisticated.

Hodge spent the cash on frequent Butlin's holidays, a big static caravan in Hastings and with contractor Pierre Allen spent greater than £15,000 on Chelsea tickets.

For his 50th, Allen spent £6,000 on a celebration on the 200-acre Gatton Manor Golf membership in Surrey.

Hodge, 53, was renal technical division supervisor for Epsom and St Helier College Hospitals NHS Belief.

He was chargeable for dialysis machines at St Helier Hospital in Carshalton, Manorgate Satellite tv for pc Dialysis Unit in Kingston and Mayday Satellite tv for pc Dialysis Unit at Croydon College Hospital.

He additionally visited sufferers' properties to resolve what modifications can be wanted for them to obtain residence dialysis, and to obtain the works required.

Nevertheless his fraud was uncovered after he was suspended for an unrelated disciplinary matter in October 2013 for which he was ultimately sacked.

Hodge, and his co-accused Pierre Allen squandered greater than £15,000 of tax payer's funds on Chelsea tickets, holidays to Butlins and even a big static caravan in Hastings 

The renal division supervisor quickly seen that when Hodge was away, far fewer invoices had been being offered for her to authorise in his work space and expenditure from the renal technician's non-pay price range dropped to lower than half.

Investigations found he had used his place to enlist the contractors and had invoiced the belief.

Textual content and chat messages between Hodge, Allen, and two different contractors revealed that they had colluded to inflate the invoices submitted to the Belief and shared out the money.

Investigators discovered 266 invoices for work contracted out to the businesses that was both not achieved, was not mandatory, or was overcharged.

Philip Jones, pictured, was paid greater than £43,000 between 2011 and 2013. He obtained a 12-month sentence suspended for 2 years

Invoices submitted by these corporations contained solely a minimal description of the work achieved.

It emerged between 2009 and 2013 Pierre Allen's firm Mains Contractors was paid a complete of £388,023.58 by the Belief.

Between 2007 and 2013 Stephen Thompson's firm S J Thompson Plumbing was paid a complete of £118,045.69.

And between 2011 and 2013 Philip Jones's firm TWS (Southern) Ltd was paid a complete of £43,609.00.

The supposed work included modification of sufferers' properties for dialysis remedy once they by no means obtained their remedy at residence or set up of flooring at a dialysis affected person's residence that was really fitted by the affected person's personal relative.

The belief was additionally charged for electrical and plumbing set up work at HMP Excessive Down that was really undertaken by jail employees and the set up of dialysis gear at HMP Excessive Down that was really undertaken by Hodge and one other member of Belief employees as a part of their paid NHS duties.

Hodge even gained the belief of the hospital's charity which was persuaded to purchase two second-hand dialysis chairs from him for £three,000.

Hodge, Allen and Thompson had been discovered responsible of fraud by abuse of place after a seven week trial at Croydon Crown Courtroom.

Hodge of Sutton was jailed for 4 years, Allen, 55, of Twickenham, was sentenced to 3 years and Thompson, 47, of Furnace Inexperienced was sentenced to 2 years.

Hodge was chargeable for sustaining dialysis machines in St Helier Hospital, Carhalton, pictured,  in addition to a number of different clinics in South London and north Surrey 

Jones, 50, of Godstone who had pleaded responsible, was given 12-months suspended for 24 months, and ordered to hold out 250 hours of unpaid work.

Hodge's accomplice, Lisa Inexperienced, 49, was discovered responsible of cash laundering and handed a six-month jail sentence, suspended for 24 months, and ordered to hold out 100 hours of unpaid work.

Sue Frith, Managing Director of NHS Defend, stated: 'Painstaking, diligent work by NHS Defend's fraud investigators has as soon as once more put a cease to treasured NHS cash draining away into personal pockets.

'It is vitally unhappy when trusted employees with priceless technical abilities, sorely wanted by the NHS and its sufferers, flip to crime.

'The general public rightly calls for that NHS staff are individuals of integrity in addition to technical potential.

'NHS Defend welcomes any tip-offs the place fraud is suspected and wherever acceptable, will probably be investigated and prosecuted.

'We help the strongest sanctions to discourage others from defrauding the NHS..'

NHS Defend estimated fraud, bribery and corruption in 2015 to 16 nationwide was £6.5 million.  

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