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NHS Pensions is seeing an increase in the amount of retirement benefit claim forms (AW8) being signed by the incorrect employing authorities. If the member is a GP in England all GP pensions are administrated by Primary Care Support England (PCSE)…

GP Locum forms A and B for 2021/22 are now available on the Information for practitioners and non-GP Providers webpage of our Member Hub. The ‘10-week rule’ for declaring pensionable locum work has been suspended for 2021/22 to give GP locums more…

The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has confirmed that amendments to the NHS Pension Scheme rules will go ahead to help retain more experienced NHS clinicians and remove barriers to staff returning to work following retirement. The DHSC…

There are no maximum service restrictions in the 2015 Scheme. All active members are 2015 members from 1 April 2022 and continue to be until they leave, opt out, or reach age 75. Members who have 1995 Section membership and have transitioned into…

Non ESR employers are not required to submit a ‘Joining or rejoining the NHS Pension Scheme (SS10)’ form for NHS staff that opt out of the Scheme within the first calendar month, providing they have completed the application to leave the NHS Pension…

Further to our update last month we can confirm that the following videos have gone live: Family and your pension Retire and return Retire and return after ill health retirement The videos are intended to provide a high level overview of…

The ESR data is uploaded to the NHS Pensions Compendia member records: daily monthly in a cycle   ESR data is also stored. View the following for upload frequency: Daily ESR data that is uploaded daily includes: changed National…

NHS England and NHS Improvement, NHS Wales and NHSBSA have been working closely together to make improvements to the ESR exit questions. From October 2021 the ESR exit questionnaire will be updated with a new set of questions drawing on themes from…

Due to the exceptional demand, we’ve added a few additional Level 1 GP practice manager events to take place in January 2022. As a reminder, there are two training sessions:  • GP Practice Manager Event Level 1 Part 1  • GP Practice Manager…

During June the Stakeholder Engagement Team visited Birmingham and hosted two events for GP Practice managers. The events focused on basic administration of the NHS Pension Scheme and consisted of various workshops throughout the day led by…