Category: NHS pensions

Advice on NHS pensions and superannuation for GP locums

PCSE bank holiday pensions portal mistake alarms sessional GPs

A history of mistakes and errors has left GPs disappointed and nervous about changes by PCSE.

NHS pensions

BMA: GPs must be exempted from minimum pension age increase

Dr Fieldhouse, NASGP chair, said: ‘This government needs to stop micromanaging contributory work benefits like the NHS Pension Scheme, particularly at a time when we are trying to encourage more GPs to work in the NHS.'

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How to use the 2022 Locum Form B

The guidance notes advise that Box j is “to assist with declaring your correct tiered rate.”

GPs who got thousands in pensions compensation silenced by NHS gagging clause

Dr Richard Fieldhouse, chair of the NASGP, said: "GP Survival’s work has highlighted the lengths that PCSE is happy to go to in order to avoid being overwhelmed by their creaking systems as they seek to correct pension records."

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What does the McCloud consultation mean for my pension?

What are the practical implications of the McCloud consultation, and what do you need to do now (or not, as the case may be)?

Nine jobs for GP locums before the end of tax year 2020/21

Check your pension allowance, use your dividend allowance, and doublecheck your tax code.

Three ways new NHS Pensions changes could affect GPs

Annual allowance, compensation, and retrospective taxation could all hit GP locums and salaried GPs now, or in the next two years. Kirsty McGaun, Legal & Medical, advises

No change to GP pension taxation, MPs rule

The Government has approved ‘deferred choice underpin’ but refused to change the rules on the tax-free pension allowance.

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Pensions form A and B ‘10-week rule’ suspended for GP locums for the tax year 2021/22

NHS Pensions has confirmed that the ‘10-week rule’ for pension forms has been suspended for 2021/22.

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Pensions ‘traps’ put sessional GP income at risk, BMA pensions committee chair warns

Vishal Sharma, BMA pensions committee chair, highlighted ‘less than full-time work’ and parental leave – two of the key concerns for many NASGP members.

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Capita under fire over NHS Pensions problems

Doctors are up in arms over pension and primary care support shortcomings, the Financial Times’s FT Adviser reports.

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One in four GP locums miss out on death-in-service, new NASGP survey finds

Of 158 responses, 25.3% said they couldn’t access death-in-service.

Death in service

How public pension ageism affects GPs

The Government has confirmed that changes made to firefighters’ pension in 2015 were age-discriminatory, and they will impact all public sector pensions

NASGP’s legal advice on NHS Pension ‘Death in Service’ benefits

Thanks to generous donations from NASGP members, we commissioned advice from specialist employment lawyer Ray Levy and barrister Mary O’Rourke QC on ‘Continual Service Contracts' and death in service benefits during Covid-19

Death-in-service benefits from the NHS: Are you returning to work due to COVID-19?

Find out about the death in service benefit, and private options available to GP locums returning to work during lockdown

NASGP appeal for Death in Service for NHS GP locums

Thanks to the NASGP, thousands of GP locums go to work every day with the assurance of contributing to a highly regarded work pension scheme.

Delay of ‘Estimate Of Pensionable Income Form’ can result in maximum pension tier

If you're a salaried GP, now would be a very good time to check with your practice manager that they have included you on their 'Estimate Of Pensionable Income Form’ for year 2020/21

One year extension to NHS Pension employer contribution gap for GP locums

The original plan (Treasury to fulfil NHS pension employer contribution gap for one year) had been for practices in England and Wales to start paying the additional 6.3% from April 1st 2020 on all pensionable locum income paid from this date.

New Type 2 NHS pension self-assessment 2018 to 2019 form now live

The new 2018/19 Type 2 Medical Practitioner self-assessment form and the companion guidance notes are now on the NHS Pensions website.

Locum’s widower loses second death-in-service appeal

A High Court appeals judge has rejected an appeal from Carl Sanderson, widower of GP locum Dr Helen Sanderson, that the NHS Pension scheme should have paid out death-in-service benefits.

Ooh! BMA clarifies nifty way to avoid annualisation

If your sole modus operandi as a GP is as a locum, and are contributing to the NHS pension scheme, it’s pretty much guaranteed that you’ll be contributing on the top pension tier.

New tier 2019 2020 annualisation calculator for 2015 NHS Pension Scheme

NHS Pensions have released a new calculator to help GP 2015 Scheme GPs in England and Wales calculate which they should be on throughout the 2019/20 period.

Taking a one day break from the 2015 scheme automatically triggers annualisation

NHS Pensions have confirmed directly that from April 2019, annualisation for GP locums in the 2015 Scheme will come into effect if any breaks of any length are taken

Treasury to fulfil NHS pension employer contribution gap for one year

The employer's contribution will rise to 20.68% for 14.38% alongside a draconian change to the annualisation rules