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The Coronavirus Act and the end of temporary suspensions for retire and return
The UK government’s Coronavirus action plan, published on 3 March 2020, set out measures to respond to the COVID-19 outbreak.
This included increasing the available health and social care workforce by removing barriers to allow recently retired NHS…
Department of Health and Social Care announces extension of retire and return easements
Following a public consultation, the Department of Health and Social Care has announced a further extension to retire and return easements beyond the current 31 October 2022 expiry date, through temporary amendments to NHS Pension Scheme regulations…
The Pharmaceutical Services (Advanced and Enhanced Services and Emergency Declaration) (Amendment) (England) Directions 2022
The declaration of emergency enabling the flexible provision of pharmaceutical services, made in the directions signed in March 2020, will now be extended from 31 January 2022 to 31 March 2022.
This will allow temporary changes to pharmacy opening…
One Drug Database (ODD) changes
After we implement the One Drug Database (ODD) changes, our systems will have data in the new format aligned to dm+d. This will include historic remapped data up to and including December 2019.
The refresh with January 2020 data will take place on…
Death Benefits
If an NHS employee dies as a result of an injury sustained or disease contracted on or before 30 March 2013 which is wholly or mainly attributable to their NHS duties or if, later in life, their death is substantially hastened by an injury or…
Reimbursement of Covid-19 costs incurred by pharmacy contractors – appeals process
In summer 2021 pharmacy contractors could claim for specific categories of Covid-19 related costs incurred between 1 March 2020 and 31 March 2021 in the delivery of NHS pharmaceutical services. Further information has been added to the Drug Tariff…
March 2023 reimbursement price changes
The Department of Health and Social Care has confirmed that the following products have had their reimbursement price redetermined for March 2023 to reflect an increase in their NHS list price:
EpiPen 300micrograms/0.3ml (1 in 1,000) solution for…
New PPE Portal
This is an announcement on behalf of the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC):
The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), in partnership with NHS Supply Chain, have implemented a new PPE Portal platform to ensure continued access to…
Sharing our performance - January 2018
Our current performance
The table below shows our recent monthly performance for pension award processing:
Our new work management tool continues to greatly assist Service Delivery to manage the monthly…
12 months of stakeholder events
In March 2017 the Stakeholder Engagement Team held their first events for employers. This infographic provides some information about the events that have been held over the last 12 months.
Look out for future event invites and don’t forget to book…