It is an issue the Department of Health and Social Care addressed in September when then-health secretary Thérèse Coffey unveiled the department’s report on how best to retain NHS staff.
“We know that people are leaving the workforce for a variety of reasons. For instance, currently, pension rules can be a disincentive for clinicians who want to stay in the profession or return from retirement and help our national endeavour,” Coffey told the House of Commons on September 22.
“We will correct those pension rules relating to inflation. We will expect NHS trusts to offer pensions recycling, and we will extend – until 2024 – measures that will allow people to stay or to return to the NHS,” she added.
Tom Higgins is a freelance reporter for Pensions Expert, FTAdviser's sister publication
