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There have been many regulations introduced which have changed the NHS Pension Scheme in different ways. A list of all regulations is provided here: The National Health Service Pension Schemes (Amendment) Regulations 2024 (legislation.gov.uk) The…

Electronic Publication of Accounts The maintenance and integrity of the NHS Business Services Authority’s website is the responsibility of the Accounting Officer; the work carried out by the auditors does not involve consideration of these matters…

Each year the NHS England Medicines Optimisation Intelligence Group identifies potential key therapeutic topics to be retained, retired or added to the current topics in the Medicines optimisation: key therapeutic topics document. These therapeutic…

The Department of Health has agreed that the April Drug Tariff Part VIIIA reimbursement price for the following items will be: Clindamycin 150mg capsules £4.85 Flecainide 50mg tablets £11.57 Leflunomide 20mg tablets £8.16 and not as printed in…

The Department of Health has announced May 2017 Part VIIIB prices.

When entering a member’s retirement lump sum (part 10 of the paper AW8) in to Pensions Online (POL), you are unable to specify whether the member wishes to receive the maximum lump sum which may incur a tax charge, or whether they wish to receive…

Scheme membership built up from 1 April 2008 is no longer subject to the pensionable earning cap. However, those that were subject to the cap in respect of some or all of their membership before that date, who are buying added years or unreduced…

Further to an article in the January 2016 Employer Newsletter, we are continuing to consider the system changes required to ensure that the whole time equivalent pay is calculated correctly for part time staff who are in receipt of supplementary…

NHS Pensions has noted an increase in requests for Special Class and Mental Health Officer status for members who are working for CCGs. Special Class and Mental Health Officer status is primarily for members of staff who are engaged in the hands on…

It is really important that you submit feedback telling us what you think about your experience of using the new site. This could be observations about the design and layout, anything you expect to see that’s not there or anything that’s not working…