NHS boss stole £565,000 to take five star holidays around the world

An NHS boss stole more than £500,000 from the taxpayer to live a life of fabulous luxury, a court heard. Thomas Elrick, 56, submitted a series of fake invoices to the health service and used his dead wife’s email account to cover his tracks. Elrick was employed as the assistant managing director for planned and unscheduled care at Harrow Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) where he had the authority to approve invoices up to £50,000. He authorised payments totalling £564,484 to…