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Question 1: The number of members employed by a GP practice that have the word 'nurse' within an ACTIVE employment job title as at 31/03/2024. Exclude Practice Staff employed by an Out of Hours Provider

Question 2: The number of members employed by a GP practice that held an employment with special class status pre 06/03/1995 and have not had a break in service of more than 5 years since. Exclude Practice Staff employed by an Out of Hours Provider

Question 3: How many protected 1995 Section Practice Staff nurse members (capacity code 01) were within 10 years of age 60 as at 31/03/2024? (e.g. How many were 50 or over). Exclude Practice Staff employed by an Out of Hours Provider.

I require data for those members over age 50 at 31/03/2024

Question 4: How many protected 2008 Section Practice Staff nurse members (capacity code 01) were within 10 years of age 65 as at 31/03/2024? (e.g. How many were 55 or over). Exclude Practice Staff employed by an Out of Hours Provider.

Please provide your response in the same format as per FOI 01463 dated 26th October 2023

Your request was received on 5 April 2024, and I am dealing with it under the terms of the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act 2000.

Response

Question One: As of 31 March 2024, there were 26,390 unique nurses actively employed by a GP Practice (excluding those who were active with an out of hours provider)

Question Two: As of 9 April 2024, there are 2,371 unique members actively employed by a GP Practice (excluding those who were active with an out of hours provider), who held special class status in a role prior to 6 March 1995, and have not had a break in service of more than 5 years since then.

Question Three: As of 31 March 2024, there were 6,752 fully protected nurses actively employed by a GP Practice (excluding those who were active with an out of hours provider), who were over or on or over age 50 as of 31 March 2024, and had some previous service in the 1995 section.

Question Four: As of 31 March 2024, there were 19 fully protected nurses actively employed by a GP Practice (excluding those who were active with an out of hours provider), who were over or on or over age 55 as at 31 March 2024, and had some previous service in the 2008 section.

Caveats

This FOI has been answered using a script written for a previous FOI. However, the information in this response is the most up to date and should be given precedence over previous answers.

Regarding Q1, Q3 and Q4, members may not be active today, as they may have terminated their employment after 31 March 2024.

Members currently employed with an ‘Out of Hours Provider’ (as of today) have been excluded, even if the GP Practice post in question was not an ‘Out of Hours Provider’

5 Year Breaks are calculated based on service dates held as employments in our database. Service held elsewhere, such as transfer in credits, cannot be assessed.

As per the requesters clarification provided for FOI-01463, Q3 and Q4 have included any member with previous eligible 1995 or 2008 service respectively. This service may have been claimed or may be deferred awaiting a pension claim. It may be linked to the ongoing 2015 scheme or may be decoupled.

A member may have both 1995 and 2008 eligible service.

Glossary

Active Member – Member had an ongoing employment on 31 March 2024

Nurse – An employment marked as capacity code 01 (Nurse (excluding Nursery Nurse), Midwife, Health Visitor, Physiotherapist)

Out of Hours provider – An Employing Authority which provides GP out of hours cover outside of normal practice hours.

Special Class Status – An employment marked as employment type 7 (Restructuring Special Class)

Fully Protected – Member was protected from transitioning to the 2015 Scheme on 1 April 2015. McCloud regulations required all active members to move to the 2015 Scheme on 1 April 2022.

Eligible Service – Service which is either liable for pension benefits, or has already been claimed as part of a benefit claim.

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