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Amendments will be made to Pensions Online (POL) to allow employers to submit AW8 retirement applications for members of the 2015 Scheme and members who have benefit entitlement in multiple schemes. This enhancement is currently anticipated to go…

The Data Management Team are receiving an unprecedented volume of employer comments and are currently unable to achieve a five day turnaround on this work. While we appreciate your assistance in cleansing data, we receive an average of 400 comments…

Following the introduction of the administration levy on 1 April 2017 which saw the shift of funding the administration of the NHS Pension Scheme from the Department of Health to NHS employers, we changed the…

On 8 February 2017, the Supreme Court ruled to allow Ms Brewster’s appeal and declared the requirement in the 2009 Regulations of the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) Northern Ireland, that the appellant and her partner should have made a…

Following the publication by the European Commission of a correction to the 13 May 2016 list of harmonized standards under the European Directive 98/79/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on in vitro diagnostic (IVD) medical devices,…

In England, 81% of all drugs in primary care are already prescribed generically, generating significant savings for the NHS.  Building on what’s been achieved with generic prescribing in recent years, we have developed a dashboard providing rapid…

The NHSBSA, NHS England and PSNC have agreed a briefing about the post-payment verification of payments to pharmacy contractors for provision of the MUR service. The NHSBSA will begin this work in October and will be requesting evidence from a…

SNOMED CT is a structured clinical vocabulary for use in electronic health records. SNOMED CT is the required standard across the NHS. It must be used as the clinical standard before 1 April 2020. This applies to systems used for the direct…

We understand that people need different levels of information from us, be it a detailed factsheet or a brief article in Ask Us. In response to this we have recently developed several short videos aimed at members. They are intended to provide a…

As you are aware, Total Reward and Annual Benefit Statements were recently refreshed and made available at the end of August 2017. Last year we carried out a mid year refresh in October which enabled employers to further cleanse data. We have …