Request

In the Department of Health and Social Care's written evidence to the Review Body for Doctors' and Dentists' Remuneration (DDRB) for the 2022 to 2023 Pay Round, here

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1056644/Written_evidence_to_the_DDRB_2022_to_2023.pdf

pages 125/6 provide tables for the number of consultants, GPs and dental practitioners claiming their NHS Pension on a voluntary early retirement (VER) basis (1995 pension scheme only). With the source given as NHS Business Services Authority.

Please provide the data which underlies these tables in Excel format with a breakdown on a quarterly basis, rather than the annual basis given in the tables, and updated with the latest data to 2021-22 Q4.

Please also provide a link to the page(s) on the NHS BSA website, or elsewhere, where this data is available.

Response

A copy of the information is attached. Please note the following –

• The attached data only represents retirements from the 1995 Section, as per the request to replicate the data in the provided document.

• Members have been counted once; they have been categorised based on their most recent employment and prioritised as a GP in the event of multiple employment types terminating on the same day.

• Period allocated is based on the date NHS Pensions completed the award and issued into payment, it does not necessarily reflect the members retirement date.

• How this data is calculated and collated has been reviewed, which has led to several changes, making the data both more accurate and reliable in the long term.

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

https://opendata.nhsbsa.net/dataset/foi-26563

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