Thank you for your request for information about the following:

Request

On 18 March 2022, the government said in response to a question about GP pension records that the NHS Business Services Authority had advised it that there were 'currently 19,681 pension records in error, of which 7,127 refer to leaver information and 12,554 relate to a year-end update'.

The full question appears here: https://www.theyworkforyou.com/wrans/?id=2022-03-10.138173.h&s=19%2C681+pension+records+in+error#g138173.r0

Under the Freedom of Information Act, I would like to request the following information:

• Please could you provide the latest available equivalent figures?

The NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA) received your request on 27 August 2024.

We have handled your request under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) 2000.

Our response

As of 12 September 2024, there are 20,987 practitioner members (GP pension records) that have at least one practitioner post missing an annual update.

There are 1,252 practitioner members with at least one ‘leaver’ form ‘in error’; that is to say it has been submitted, but is currently held in an ‘error’ state due to processing or validation issues.

There are 2,232 practitioner members with at least one ‘update’ form ‘in error’; that is to say it has been submitted, but is currently held in an ‘error’ state due to processing or validation issues.

Please read the below notes to ensure correct understanding of the data. 

Practitioners may have multiple concurrent posts, which may or may not be fully updated for the 2022/23 financial year. For the purpose of this FOI, only open practitioner employments have been assessed.

An employment could be missing multiple years of annual updates; for the purpose of this FOI each member is only counted once if they are missing at least one annual update.

An employment missing an annual update does not necessarily mean the information has not been submitted.

The ‘form in error’ detailed above may relate to an ongoing, non-updated employment, or may relate to a fully updated/terminated employment – i.e. it maybe an amendment for a previously processed update.

It is not possible to identify if a ‘form in error’ specifically relates to a missing update.

The ‘form in error’ may not relate to a practitioner employment; it may relate to a non-practitioner employment which the practitioner also holds concurrently.

Data Queries

Please contact foirequests@nhsbsa.nhs.uk ensuring you quote the above reference if you have any specific questions regarding this response; or, if you feel you may be misunderstanding or misinterpreting the information; or, if you plan on publishing the data.

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http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/

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