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Around 3% of all greenhouse gas emissions generated by the NHS come from the inhalers prescribed for respiratory conditions. In line with the NHS Long Term Plan, the Greener NHS programme, and to support the ambition for a net zero NHS, we’re…

We no longer require you to provide pensionable pay (TPP) for 1995 members on the FPC1 form. This field has been removed from the form in line with the awards process and the removal of this information on the AW8. Our systems will calculate the…

The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) is consulting on changes to the NHS Pension Scheme Regulations 2015 concerning uplifts to member contributions in 2023 to 2024, in line with the Agenda for Change pay deal. When DHSC introduced…

The annual version changes relating to the BNF Structure have been implemented with January 2024 dispensing data.  The latest file shows the BNF presentation code as of December 2023 data against the BNF presentation code as of January 2024 data. …

Following the nationally agreed pay award, which has been backdated to April 2024, the pay for any retirements from that date will need revising to ensure the pension is being paid at the correct level. For partial retirements, where pay cannot be…

As you may be aware, new data protection regulations will come into UK law on 25 May 2018. GDPR will update the Data Protection Act and is more stringent in its rules. We will need to be much more specific in how we describe to people how we wish…

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…

Pensions Online (POL) and our operating system (Compendia) went offline from 6pm on 24 May 2018 and will be available again from 10am on Monday 4 June. This is while we carry out the integration of pensioner data into our Compendia system ready for…

Last month we told you about the pensions digital service ‘Claim my NHS Pension’ going into Private Beta. The service allows deferred members to complete and submit the deferred benefits claim form (AW8P) online.  So far we are controlling the…

For terminal ill health cases, an AW341 application form is required along with the AW33E. The team have recently noticed an increase in terminal ill health estimates being requested where the commuted incapacity box has been ticked in error to…