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The antimicrobial stewardship UTI dashboard is now live in ePACT2. As part of the UK’s second five-year national action plan to combat antimicrobial resistance, this initiative promotes optimal use of antimicrobials in humans to ensure safe,…

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 deadline for supplying your year end information (for Officer and Practice staff members) has now passed. If you did not supply the information by 31 May, either via Pensions Online or by completing the spreadsheet that was emailed to you, your…

Members who qualify for a five year rejoiner estimate will be individually notified and directed to a personalised comparison pack request form on the NHS Pensions website. This is because members who return to pensionable NHS employment after a…

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…

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…

HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) have asked pension schemes to remind members that: “it is really important that those who have exceeded the Annual Allowance for (the tax year) 2016 to 2017 to declare this on their Self Assessment tax return (the…

Please note: This article and letter are for the attention of GP Practices who submit NHS Pension Scheme contributions via Pensions Online (POL) only. There will be a change of banking arrangements taking place at the end of March 2018. The…

If during 2016/17 you elected to work in a GP practice on a long term (more than six months) self-employed basis and recorded your work, in NHS pension terms, as a type 2 medical Practitioner, rather than as a freelance GP locum, you may ask NHS…

We would like to remind all employers that your member records should be updated up to 31 March 2018 by 31 May 2018. Our Data Management Team continue to work on priority data errors in readiness for the…