A woman will appear in crown court after she denied faking being a local neonatal ward matron.

Tanya Maria Nasir of Watford Road, Croxley Green, pleaded not guilty to nine charges at Cardiff Magistrates’ Court on July 20.

The alleged offences range from June 2018 to April 2021, and relate to medical organisations including West Herts Trust, Hillingdon Hospital, and Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board.

Four of the charges are for fraud by false representation and three are for using a false instrument with intent it be accepted as genuine.

There is also a charge of possessing or controlling an article for use in fraud and one charge of unauthorised computer access with intent to commit other offences.

Among the charges, the 44-year-old allegedly used a computer to send an email purporting to be genuine, in 2021, and provided a false representation with a view to gaining employment as a neonatal ward manager in Wales, in 2019.

The charge relating to the West Herts Trust involves an alleged incident where, in reference provided on behalf of another woman, Nasir dishonestly made the false representation that she worked with her and had been a matron of neonatal at the trust to gain employment at a company, also in 2019.

The court directed a trial to take place in Cardiff Crown Court, scheduled for August 17.