Healthcare Corruption

Graham Brooks is Professor of Criminology and Anti-Corruption at the University of West London, Institute of Police Studies, UK. He specialises in corruption in an international context. Graham has been plenary speaker at the Cabinet Counter Fraud Conference 2012,part of a team measuring fraud in overseas aid for the Dept. of Internal Development (2011-2013), keynote speaker at European Health Fraud and Corruption Network (EHFCN) 2015, in The Hague, and in Athens in 2018, part of Cabinet Office Round-Table discussion on anti-corruption in 2016. Graham has also contributed to Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) workshops on 'Measuring the Scale of Money Laundering in the United Kingdom' (London, 2018) and 'Anti-Money Laundering (AML) responses in online businesses' (London, 2019). He was recently part of team that developed a FAWE (Fraud, Abuse, Waste and Error) skills development course for the private healthcare sector (2021-2022) and is a member of the Institute of Money Laundering Prevention Officers Expert Panel (2023). 

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Healthcare corruption An interdisciplinary problem.- Chapter 3. Types of Healthcare Corruption and the Problem of Measurement.- Chapter 4. The Costs and Impacts of Healthcare Corruption.- Chapter 5. Telemedicine Healthcare at a distance.- Chapter 6. Substandard, Unlicensed and Counterfeit Healthcare Products.- Chapter 7. Defensive Healthcare Practice An Environment for Corruption.- Chapter 8. The Healthcare Sector as part of a Carceral State.- Chapter 9. Exposing Corruption in the Healthcare Sector An Impenetrable Edifice.- Chapter 10. Uncaring Homes Control and Exclusion.- Chapter 11. Rational Choice and Behavioral Economics.- Chapter 12. A Nudge in the right Direction Persuading People to change.- Chapter 13. Reflections and Conclusion.