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Sharing our performance - December 2017
Our current performance
The table below shows our recent monthly performance for pension award processing:
Our Christmas plans were achieved by Pensions staff working additional hours during November and…
Stakeholder engagement update
Thank you to everyone who attended our recent events in Peterborough, Carlisle, Leeds and London. We have received positive feedback which we appreciate and will use as we work to improve these events to meet your needs.
Our upcoming events…
Full system availability - Pensions Online and Compendia
The NHSBSA is currently in the process of transforming the pensioner payroll and administration.
To allow for the critical upgrade of our systems and the migration of data from existing systems there will be some system downtime coming up and we…
Bigger lump sum purchase
This is only for people who were members of the Scheme before 25 March 1972 (1995 Section only).
It applies to anyone who either:
is or has been married
has a civil partner
has a surviving Scheme partner
The person must be nominated to…
Sharing our performance - December 2018
The Awards recovery plan is now complete and we would like to thank everyone for their patience and understanding during the time taken to recover. The overall work on hand for pension applications continues to reduce with the current outstanding…
Pensions Online (POL) & Electronic Staff Record (ESR) employers
Data error clearance
As we approach 31 March 2019, we'd like to remind employers that clearing errors allocated to you in 'Pensions Online' error handling, before the submission of your year-end data, will improve your year-end success rate and…
2018 to 2019 Non Pensions Online (POL) Annual Update (Organisations without access to Pensions Online)
Following the success of the 2017/18 non POL update process, we've made a few improvements and are now well underway in rolling out the process for 2018 to 2019 to non POL employers.
This has involved;
face-to-face training for 125 pension…
The NHS Pension Scheme for England and Wales - proposed changes to scheme regulations 2019
We notified you in the January 2019 employers newsletter about proposed changes to the National Health Service Pension Scheme, Additional Voluntary Contributions and Injury Benefits (Amendment) Regulations 2019.
The proposed changes include:…
New Medicine Service (NMS) – Drug Lists
NMS medicines
NHS England and Improvement (NHSEI) has released a New Medicine Service updated service specification to be used from 1 September 2021:
Advanced Service Specification – NHS New Medicine Service (NMS) [PDF: 245KB]As outlined in Part…
Exceeding Whole Time action required
As the deadline for issuing pensions saving statements approaches please action any SM8’s received.
If the contributions and pay are not amended in line with a reduction in hours/sessions worked, the member may receive an incorrect Annual Allowance…