Numberof Patient Exemption Claims Checked by NHSScotland Counter Fraud Services 2003-041 NHS Board Number of Cases Where a Decision has Been Made as to Eligibility Number of Cases Where The Patient has Paid the Statutory Charge or the Penalty Charge Amount Recovered Ayrshire and Arran 402 33 £1,654.42 Borders 132 10 £308.86 Dumfries and Galloway 187 21 £861.52 Fife 400 38 £1,115.47 Forth Valley 291 21 £1,197.48 Grampian 652 46 £1,730.46 Greater Glasgow 997 114 £6,094.23 Highland 245 30 £1,119.38 Lanarkshire 599 59 £2,535.88 Lothian 832 104 £5,005.26 Orkney 61 2 £19.72 Argyll and Clyde 295 44 £1,601.75 Shetland 49 1 £97.12 Tayside 421 39 £1,890.58 West Lothian 0 0 £0.00 Western Isles 54 4 £99.88 Totals 5,617 566 £25,332.01 Note:1.An automated patient exemption checking system developed in 2002-03 has enabledreports to be produced at NHS board level in a different format.NHSScotland Counter FraudServices have recently completed the first stage of a risk measurementexercise, based on a statistically robust sample of claims paid in February2003, to establish the level of patient fraud and error in Scotland...