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Press release: NHS Employers responds to reports of CV falsification in the NHS15 Feb 2008
"NHS employers carry out rigorous checks before they appoint any member of staff to a position in the NHS and patients can have confidence that the staff who treat them are who they say they are and that they have the appropriate qualifications. "Falsifying CVs or applications in an attempt to get a job in the NHS is completely unacceptable. Thorough checks are carried out before appointment to a post in the NHS and include verification of qualifications, identity, registration with a professional body if they are clinical staff and eligibility to work in the UK. The majority of people who make claims that they have skills or experience that they don't have would be picked up during the vetting process however this is inevitably a challenge in an organisation as large as the NHS, employing 1.3 million staff. "Systems for vetting applicants for jobs in the NHS are continually being strengthened and improved. In the next few weeks we will be publishing a set of updated standards which will be mandatory from April and which will be included in the core list of requirements on which the independent Health Care Commission will inspect trusts." Notes for editors
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