Was interesting to see most newspaper comments were critical of the sentence, and an interesting question - re submitting a C.V. without all qualifications shown.
IMO, NHS sacking her would have been enough. Take someone to court if they endanger people, eg someone claiming medical qualifications without holding them, or someone doing something which physically or mentally harms another person (staff or patient), but with someone in an Admin job???
I see NHS failed to get salary back, and if she had been working for them, I fail to see how they could get it all back - being defrauded of the money (eg paying an invoice when no services or goods were forthcoming) would have been a different matter.
Seems to me that they only did their checking when they were looking for a way to get rid of her, so maybe judge felt they were slack in not checking earlier.
I wonder if the judge decided sentence
a) as warning to others
b) because charge was fraud
c) because 'capital projects' in the job title suggests finances might have been risked (eg if she would lie to get the job, could she take a bribe to give some business preference when tenders were submitted?)
Too harsh - clearly she's not had much success during her time out of R.N. and this will make her future far worse, I suspect, blighting what chances she would have had.
I've never lied on job applications, though I have only ever been accepted for one job that way (when I was 19, having quit college, and fresh from education with 'O' levels and a few City and Guild certificates {electronics and radio course} there was nothing to lie about anyway).
I was "head hunted" for my second job, and taken on by recommendation as a consultant for the rest. I certainly sent plenty of CVs during a period of unemployment, but with 11 years in one place and nearly 2 years in the next, no way to lie, even if I had been tempted.
I agree she did wrong, but if 1 in 4 is equally guilty of similar 'fraud', how many in the police, local government, tax/ benefits offices, court staff, etc, should also be locked up?
We're talking millions of people potentially being accused, if every employer had a similar 'blanket policy' and took cases to court for fraud. I suspect the NHS did it to get the money back, as someone higher up felt they'd lose face if they had to face up to not having tried to recover it, and been found out for not checking her credentials properly. In this case they failed on that score and are seen as miserable "jobsworth" b'stards too.
In case anyone thinks it, no I wouldn't even have been tempted. I'd expect people to check thoroughly - why would anyone not - and therefore expect to be 'found out' !!