Media contacts
Media Relations Officer
James Robertson
tel 020 7895 4524
email james.robertson@cfsms.gsi.gov.uk
Fax the press office
020 7895 4329
Address:
NHS Counter Fraud and Security Management Service
Weston House
246 High Holborn
London
WC1V 7EX
Out-of-hours media enquiries:
tel 07717 851926
For all other press releases please refer to 'Archived press releases'.
23 November 2010
New technology backed by strong management has proven to be an award-winning combination for the NHS Security Management Service (SMS).
10 August 2010
The NHS Security Management Service (NHS SMS) has launched new guidance on the use of markers on patients’ care records, which alert NHS staff to the risk of physical violence or aggression.
02 June 2010
A homeless man with over 70 aliases who became an expert at faking illness and cost the NHS tens of thousands of pounds in wasted care has been issued with a three year criminal Asbo at Bolton Crown Court, 1st June.
19 May 2010
The prosecution of a violent patient by the Legal Protection Unit (LPU) of the NHS Security Management Service (NHS SMS) has resulted in a section 37 Hospital Order with a Section 41 Restriction Order being imposed.
17 March 2010
Following a successful prosecution by the NHS Legal Protection Unit (LPU), a man who threatened staff with knives at the Daisy psychiatric ward in Prospect Park Hospital, Reading, has received a conditional discharge (Reading Magistrates Court, 12 March)
23 February 2010
The NHS Security Management Service (SMS) welcomes the positive revisions to the sixth edition of the Code for Crown Prosecutors, which underscore the public interest in prosecuting all those who attack health workers.
30 November 2009
The NHS has today been given new powers to deal with low level anti-social behaviour. The Criminal Justice and Immigration Act (CJIA) 2008 creates a new criminal offence of causing a nuisance or disturbance on NHS hospital premises and refusing to leave.