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The Department of Health and Social Care recently announced that the amount members will pay towards their NHS Pension is changing.  To allow us to implement the changes to the NHS Pension Scheme contribution tiers, the following Compass functions…

A UK European Health Insurance Card (EHIC) or UK Global Health Insurance Card (GHIC) does not cover going abroad for planned medical treatments. A UK EHIC or UK GHIC is for necessary healthcare when you're travelling. Necessary healthcare means…

You must provide pay (and membership) information for members by 6 July following the end of the tax year to enable pensions savings statements to be provided to members. A pensions savings statement is important as it tells members whether they…

Please remember that where vaccines have been centrally procured for your practice through Public Health England, you should not make a claim to NHS Prescription Services on form FP34D/PD Appendix or FP10 under personal administration arrangements…

Thank you for completing the NHS Pensions Member Survey. If you have any queries about this survey please contact us by emailing NHSBSAResearch@NHS.net. Would you like to sign up to the NHSBSA research panel?  The NHSBSA would like customers to…

Members who qualify for a five year rejoiner estimate will be individually notified and directed to a personalised comparison pack request form on the NHS Pensions website. This is because members who return to pensionable NHS employment after a…

As you may be aware, new data protection regulations will come into UK law on 25 May 2018. GDPR will update the Data Protection Act and is more stringent in its rules. We will need to be much more specific in how we describe to people how we wish…

Please note: This article and letter are for the attention of GP Practices who submit NHS Pension Scheme contributions via Pensions Online (POL) only. There will be a change of banking arrangements taking place at the end of March 2018. The…

If you receive War Pension Scheme or Armed Forces Compensation Scheme payments and are under the age of 60, you can request a war pension exemption certificate from Veterans UK. A valid war pension exemption certificate entitles you to: free NHS…

Suspension of certain calculations involving actuarial factors In the budget on 29 October 2018, HM Treasury announced a revision to the basis for the calculation of Cash Equivalent Transfer Values (CETVs) payable from public service pension…