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Antimicrobial stewardship
'Antibiotic quality premium'
The NHS England antibiotic quality premium monitoring dashboard has been produced to help NHS England monitor Sub Integrated Care Board Locations' (SICBLs) (previously CCGs) performance in the delivery of the '…
CCGs and the retention of Special Class and Mental Health Officer status
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…
Exceptional Support Fund (ESF)
The Exceptional Support Fund (ESF) is funding available to eligible healthcare students who experience unforeseen financial hardship during their studies. You can claim a grant of up to £3,000 per academic year.
Eligibility
To claim ESF, you need…
Calculating whole time equivalent pensionable pay for a part time Officer (or Practice staff) member who receives additional or supplementary payments
The following information updates previous guidance provided in our January 2016 newsletter.
The article in the January 2016 Employer Newsletter informed you continue to use your current method of calculating notional whole time pay for part time…
Items which should not be routinely prescribed in primary care
This ‘Items not for routine prescribing’ dashboard is based on guidelines for an initial list of 18 treatments, drawn up with family doctors and pharmacists, which fall into one or more of these categories:
products of low clinical effectiveness…
Medication safety
A clinical review is being undertaken for these indicators and re-alignment with current programmes of work, therefore the medication safety dashboard has been updated for a final time in November 2022.
If you're registered, you can access the…
Final Pay Control and deferred members
Where a member leaves NHS employment on or after 1 April 2014 and their benefits are deferred, the member’s deferred benefits will be checked to see if they exceed the Final Pay Control limits when their benefits are either:
Transferred to…
Spaces left for GP practice employer stakeholder event
The NHS Pensions’ Stakeholder Engagement Team has a number of places remaining for GP practice employer events next week.
These events focus on the administration of the NHS Pensions Scheme, consisting of various workshops throughout the day.
They…
Final Pay Control update
Following the article in September’s Newsletter introducing the FPC1 form, we are pleased to report this has helped reduce the number of invoices going out to employers and helped prevent charges being over/under stated based on the information you…
Matt Hancock visits the NHS Business Services Authority
The Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Matt Hancock, visited the NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA) in Newcastle, as the organisation who will have responsibility for administering the new nursing support payments which are being…