Nurse who fraudulently earned £51k from NHS to pay back £278

A woman jailed for five years for lying about her qualifications to get a senior nursing job has been ordered to return less than £300 of her fraudulent earnings.

Tanya Nasir, 47, managed a unit looking after premature babies at Bridgend's Princess of Wales Hospital for five months before being found out.

Nasir, from Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, also worked at west London's Hillingdon Hospital.

Cardiff Crown Court heard on Thursday Nasir, freed in January, could not pay any more because she was on benefits and all but penniless.

The court decided she earned the sum of £51,397.58 fraudulently when she claimed to be a band seven nurse but was only qualified to be band five.

But she will only pay £278.13 because that is all she has in her bank account.

That will be split between Hillingdon NHS Trust, which will receive £13.91, and Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board, which will get £264.22.

She has until 6 August to pay. If she does not pay she will serve a month in prison.

The court heard fraud investigators will pursue Nasir if she comes into money.