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Pharmacists who conned the NHS out of £1.3million by dispensing fake prescriptions for cancer medication are jailed for a total of 12 years

Jignesh Patel, 46, and Rahil Patel, 42 (no relation), faked 1,639 chits using the identities of hundreds of real patients to claim the seven-figure sum from the NHS between 2014 and 2017.

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