Since January we have been working with a small group of Direction Bodies to pilot our online Financial Information Collection (FIC) service. FIC will enable all employers to submit their contributions securely online regardless of whether they have access to the NHS N3 network. This will eliminate the need to post or email forms and spreadsheets, reduce errors and save time. Testing has gone well to date so we have now opened FIC up to a small group of GP Practices and will continue piloting with them for the next few months.
In the future we will be building in notifications that will alert employers that contribution submissions are due. The aim is to reduce late payments and the late payment charge this incurs.
We will provide more detail in future newsletters about how and when we plan to roll this service out to all employers.