GP practice manager stole £144,000 and 'gave herself pay rise'

A FORMER Warwickshire NHS GP practice manager stole more than £144,000 including giving herself pay rises.

- By CLAIRE HARRISON News Reporter

Kelly Preece ‘manipulated payments and falsified records’ while she worked as GP practice manager at Westside Medical Centre in Rugby.

In her role, the 45-year-old from Charter Road had control of all banking, including salary payments and paying locum doctors when they submitted invoices at the surgery.

But, in January 2021, she started ‘exploiting the NHS for her personal gain; fraudulently obtaining funds from the practice by transferring money from the surgery to her own bank account. She hid these payments by labelling them as payments to others.