Request

• The number of General Practitioners who were awarded pension benefits in each of the following years 2018-19, 2019-20, 2020-21, 2021-22, 2022-23
• The number of General Practitioners who claimed payment of their benefits on Actuarially Reduced Early Retirement (ARER) grounds in each of the following years 2018-19, 2019-20, 2020-21, 2021-22, 2022-23

Would you recommend a different wording in order to find out how many GPs retire ever year (since 2018)?

On 25 April 2023 you clarified the following: We asked: Could you please confirm that we are to go ahead with the following wording: Please may you provide me with: - The number of General Practitioners who were awarded pension benefits in each of the following years 2018-19, 2019-20, 2020-21, 2021-22, 2022-23 - The number of General Practitioners who claimed payment of their benefits on Actuarially Reduced Early Retirement (ARER) grounds in each of the following years 2018-19, 2019-20, 2020-21, 2021-22, 2022-23 You answered: Thank you so much, yes, I’m happy for you to go ahead with that wording.

Response

A copy of the information is attached:

• Each Scheme claimed from is counted individually – i.e. if a member claims 1995 Scheme benefits in 2018, and then 2015 Scheme benefits in 2021, they are counted in both data sets.

• Data is based on the date NHS Pensions implemented the award, not the payable date – depending if the award is applied for late or early, the year of payable date may not match the year we processed the award.

Please note that this request and our response is published on our Freedom of Information disclosure log at:

https://opendata.nhsbsa.net/dataset/foi-01104