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The Community Pharmacy Assurance Framework screening questionnaire is live
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…
Prescribing budgets
ICBs are responsible for setting a prescribing budget against each GP practice within their organisation.
Annual prescribing budgets
Following the completion of March’s prescribing data, NHS Prescription Services will send an annual prescribing…
Final pay controls
The aim of the final pay control regulations in the 1995 Section of the NHS Pension Scheme is to protect the NHS Pension Scheme against the costs of excessive increases in pensionable pay at or before retirement.
Employers are charged if they give…
Employer reminder - annual allowance information required
Employers are required in legislation to provide information to NHS Pensions which enables pension savings statements to be provided to members. This statement informs members whether they have exceeded the annual allowance limit in the NHS Pension…
Access to POL - urgent action may be required
Due to some employers having issues connecting to POL, we have been advised to amend the IP Address we use to host the site. This change will be implemented between 15:00 and 16:00 on Friday 2nd July and will result in a short outage during this…
Changes to final pay controls and how to apply for retrospective charges to be reassessed
The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) recently published the outcome of its consultation on proposed amendments to the NHS Pension Scheme Regulations which confirmed changes to final pay controls from the 1 July 2021.
These changes are…
The Greenbury query window is closing
For any employers that have Greenbury queries, please ensure that these have been submitted by 31 July 2021. Any queries received after this date will not receive a response.
Greenbury requests for senior managers who have opted out of the NHS…
Claims for repayment of initial or limited survivor pension paid to widow, widower or civil partner
The NHS Pensions Operational Finance team has fully transitioned to using a paperless system for processing claims for the re-imbursement of initial or limited survivor pension. We therefore require the FIN9 Claim form in a PDF format for audit…
Kickstart Scheme
The Kickstart Scheme is a government funded scheme to create new jobs placements for 16 to 24 year old that are on Universal Credit who are at risk of long-term unemployment. This scheme is open to all employers.
The scheme covers:
100% of the…
Year end update for employers
We would like to remind all employers that the deadline for submitting year end updates has now passed. Failure to submit year end data can result in penalties imposed by HMRC for each member where the data is outstanding.
The timely submission of…