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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…

This year’s TRS data cut for the annual refresh will take place after 7 pm on Friday 19 June 2020 with refreshed statements being made available by the end of August 2020. Our NHS Pensions team will be working hard to try and ensure that as many…

Last month we advised that from 1 August 2020, NHS Pensions will no longer deal with comments submitted through POL error handling.  Where you can provide relevant information for resolving an error, you should now email nhsbsa.nwdatamanagement@nhs…

We have received a number of FPC1 forms where the box (non-GP provider) has been ticked incorrectly when completing Question 1. As there appears to be some confusion around this we felt it might be helpful to clarify what constitutes a non-GP…

The UK government’s Coronavirus action plan, published on 3 March 2020, set out measures to respond to the COVID-19 outbreak. This included increasing the available health and social care workforce by removing barriers to allow recently retired NHS…

The NHS Pensions Stakeholder Engagement team support employers with their administration responsibilities for the Scheme and can help with any queries you may have. We organise events, courses and training for Scheme employers including:…

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…

In April 2023 changes were made to the NHS Pension Scheme that enabled members who have retired with 1995 Section benefits to join and continue to build benefits in the 2015 Scheme if they return to work.  Following these changes, we are receiving…

Further dates are available for the Level 1 and Level 2 GP practice manager events, which include educational training tailored for practice managers, delivered virtually via Microsoft Teams. Practice managers need to attend the whole training…

We’ve recently produced two new video resources which are available via our YouTube channel. One focuses on Retire and Return and the other on Partial Retirement. The Retire and Return video explains to members how to rejoin the NHS Pension Scheme…