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NHS Employers and the NHS trade unions have carried out a joint review of the NHS ill health retirement scheme (part of the NHS Pension Scheme), the management of sickness absence, and the injury benefit scheme. A three-month consultation on jointly agreed proposals to manage staff sickness and ill health retirement in the NHS is underway. As ill health retirements are a key component of the main pension scheme, arrangements for this need to be in place by April 2008. The injury benefits review is working to a slightly longer timescale as implementation is not constrained by any links to the main NHS Pension Scheme Review, which is set to be implemented on 1 April 2008. The current injury benefit schemeThe NHS injury benefit scheme makes payments to NHS staff that become ill or are injured as a result of their work in the NHS. The scheme forms part of the terms and conditions of NHS employment and is regulated by the NHS (Injury Benefit) Regulations 1995. It is separate to the NHS Pension Scheme. There are three main types of benefits payable from the Scheme:
All applications are subject to a medical decision. Applications are received by NHS Business Services Authority Pensions Division and assessed by the scheme's medical advisers (ATOS Origin). Almost all staff employed in the NHS are covered by the scheme from their first until their last day of employment, and they do not have to be a member of the NHS Pension Scheme. The only staff not covered are GP practice staff, GP co-operative staff, PMS staff, freelance GP and dental locums, direction employees, reservists, and staff working for a private or public limited company that provides a service to the NHS (i.e. agency staff). Pages in this sectionInjury benefit advertising campaign Last reviewed 4 Jan 2008 |
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