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We're delivering you the following message on behalf of NHS England and NHS Improvement. The Advanced Service element of the Medicines Delivery Service (MDS) for self-isolating patients from pharmacies and dispensing doctors, ceased on 5 March 2022…

We provide colleges and universities with information relating to the Education Support Grant (ESG) in respect of Social Work students. A consultation report was published on 2014 by the Department of Health and Social Care on reforming the…

When sending NHS Pensions the ill-health retirement application form and any supporting medical evidence, ensure these are sent to us as soon as possible.  This is particularly important for members who receive a terminal diagnosis. Sadly, NHS…

We are receiving an increasing number of enquiries to our contact centre from members who are planning to retire and believe they have submitted their application a number of months ago, but we haven’t yet received their AW8. In all cases, AW8…

We are currently experiencing some intermittent issues with Pensions Online (POL). We continue to work to resolve this and apologise for any inconvenience it is causing you. We’ll share further updates as these become available. POL will be…

The NHS Pensions member events aim to help members understand everything they need to know about their NHS pension and how to navigate through the Scheme. We have a number of events planned throughout the year to help them which include:…

This is an announcement on behalf of the Department of Health and Social Care. The Department of Health and Social Care can confirm that the following product will have a redetermination due to late notification of a price increase, this will apply…

We’re working closely with the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), NHS Employers and NHS England to work through the new rules to allow members to take partial retirement from 1 October 2023 and help employers get ready for the change. The…

Following a change to the discount rate used for public service pension schemes that HM Treasury announced on 30 March 2023, the factors used to calculate transfer values for non-Club transfers and pensions on divorce changed. We are now able to…

The annual refresh of Total Rewards Statements (TRS) and Annual Benefit Statements (ABS) is taking place in August, and updated statements will be available to NHS Pension Scheme members from 22 August 2023. We'll be communicating to members to let…