Founded in 2005
EHFCN was founded in 2005 as a result of the first pan-European conference held in London in October 2004. Its foundations lie in the European Healthcare Fraud and Corruption Declaration agreed upon by its delegates. This was realised with the financial support from the AGIS 2004 Programme of the European Commission – Directorate General Justice and Home Affairs.
A European United Front Against Healthcare Fraud and Corruption
September 2004, London, under the leadership of Jim Gee, Executive Director of the Counter Fraud and Security Management Service (CFSMS ) at NHS (National Health Service), awareness has emerged amongst many participants for the sake and the urgency of a fight against the fraud and abuse, in the field of health, in order to preserve the sustainability of our healthcare systems.
The prospect of a European structure to combat fraud and corruption in the field of health emerges. A constitution is drafted in Vilnius, Lithuania, as well as in London. A founding General Assembly is put in place, and at the first elections of the Executive Committee of the European network
held in Bratislava the following year, a structure is created: the European network of fight against fraud and corruption, EHFCN. It is chaired by a Scotsman, Dermid Mc Causlan, and led by Jim GEE (UK).
At that moment are also present: representatives of institutions, departments and structures of professionals of health, Belgium through the INAMI, the College of pharmacists of Madrid, the Ministry of health in Lithuania, the Ministry of the Interior for Austria, a representative of a German health insurance, a representative of CNAMTS for France, as well as a few observers, including observers from Poland, Greece, Slovenia, Italy, Turkey and Portugal.