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We have noticed an increase in 2015 Scheme retirement applications being submitted by employer’s with the reason for retirement given as 'age' and the member has not yet reached their State Pension Age. To retire from the 2015 Scheme on age grounds…

As outlined in DHSC’s guidance for general practice in England on accessing DHSC centrally supplied flu vaccines, each GP practice is required to complete a return to declare: whether you sourced DHSC supplied flu vaccines the manufacturers you…

When sending application forms to the NHSBSA, including the AW33E Consideration of entitlement to ill health retirement benefits form, you should ensure that forms are scanned in the correct order from page 1 to the end of the document before…

We launched the Community Pharmacy Assurance Framework (CPAF) screening questionnaire for all community pharmacies in England on 28 June 2021.  Pharmacy contractors can access this year’s CPAF by logging in to the NHSBSA’s Manage Your Service (MYS…

Contractors should be aware of three amendments to Part VIC from the February 2025 Drug Tariff: A provision that will allow claims to be accepted outside the claim window when IT issues outside a contractor’s control prevents them from making a…

As we prepare to start sending Remedial Savings Statements (RSS), we have recently published an Illustrator for members affected by McCloud. This illustrator allows those who have not yet received their RSS to explore how different factors, such as…

On 28 February 2022 HMRC published new guidance for public service scheme members with enhanced or fixed protection. Lifetime allowance is the total benefits you can build up from all registered pension schemes without incurring a tax charge. Since…

We are receiving a high volume of incomplete and outdated forms for additional pension. Can all employers ensure that they are directing members to the additional pension calculator on the additional pension webpage of the Member Hub. All…

Microsoft is withdrawing support for Internet Explorer (IE) from Wednesday 15 June 2022. As a result, we will no longer support IE in Compass.  Compass supports the latest versions of Edge, Chrome and Firefox. Safari is also supported on Mac…

From 1 April 2023 the monthly Flat Fee payment to pharmacy contractors will be introduced. The payment and conditions are set out in Drug Tariff Part VIA paragraph 5 (PDF: 63KB).