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Urgent action is needed to cleanse data in readiness for the 2022/23 year end updates. There are currently 250,000 errors allocated to employers in Pensions Online (POL) error handling. Over 93,000 are year-end updates for 2022 or earlier years.…

The National Clinical Audit to be undertaken by all community pharmacy contractors in 2022-23 will focus on preventing harm from Valproate prescribing in patients, of childbearing age, who are biologically able to be pregnant. This has been agreed…

The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) is consulting on changes to the NHS Pension Scheme Regulations 2015 concerning uplifts to member contributions in 2023 to 2024, in line with the Agenda for Change pay deal. When DHSC introduced…

We recently announced the release of a new eOPSv3 with Performer Data (Beta) dashboard. As with previous versions of the eOPS dashboard, the new dashboard allows users to view data on the number of NHS sight tests performed, and the number of…

Pension Awareness Week is all about helping to raise awareness of the importance of pensions. Throughout the week we’ll be sharing information on the NHS Pension Scheme, what it is and why it’s so valuable. If you’ve just recently joined the NHS…

In our March employer update, we gave further information about the second phase of changes to member contributions. These changes must be implemented from 1 April 24. We now know what contribution rate should be applied where employers can not…

We’re currently receiving high volumes of retirement applications. This means it’s taking us longer than usual to process payment of retirement benefits. While we prioritise making payments to our members, it may take us longer than usual to…

Contractors should note the minimum number of Pharmacy First Clinical Pathway consultations required to be delivered during October 2024 to secure the fixed payment has been reduced from 30 to 20. In addition, from October 2024, the Pharmacy First…

The Dispensing Practice Name and Address dataset is produced monthly and provides the name and address details of dispensing practices for each primary care organisation. It also includes: • how many GPs are in each practice and how many of them…

We receive a substantial number of Practice Nurse (PN) prescriptions for prescribers who have not been registered with NHS Prescription Services at the practice specified on the prescriptions they're issuing.  This has resulted in a high volume of…