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DOCTORS in Notts are being paid more than ?5m a year to care for more than 78,000 patients that "don't exist", the Post has discovered.
NHS figures show there are more patients registered with GPs in Notts than there are people in the county.
This could be because people have died or moved and their details have not been updated.
But doctors are given ?66 for every patient registered with them, regardless of whether or not they receive treatment, meaning millions of pounds of precious funding maybe spent where it is not needed.
http://www.nottinghampost.com/pound-5m-COST-GHOST-PATIENTS/story-19840403-detail/story.html
NHS figures show there are more patients registered with GPs in Notts than there are people in the county.
This could be because people have died or moved and their details have not been updated.
But doctors are given ?66 for every patient registered with them, regardless of whether or not they receive treatment, meaning millions of pounds of precious funding maybe spent where it is not needed.
http://www.nottinghampost.com/pound-5m-COST-GHOST-PATIENTS/story-19840403-detail/story.html