Diving Instructors defraud NHS for bogus recompression

Two divers, David Welsh and Michael Brass, have been found guilty of billing the NHS for decompression treatments which never were.

The pair paid strangers to pose as divers suffering from decompression illness - the NHS only required names, date of birth, address and NI numbers, and only did basic checks on the information. They then billed the NHS for treatment which never was.

Each decompression case (from between 1998 and 2002) was billed at £6,500. 37 fake claims were submitted.

The dive centre involved - Fort Bovisand in Plymouth - had its own decompression chamber. (it used to be under the control of the navy)

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