Overview

Please download the forms directly from the NHS BSA website, complete it electronically, save it and upload it directly to the online form. As long as you can provide a nhs.net address as a contact email address there is no need to print it off, sign it and scan back in, which often makes the file size much larger.

If you don’t have an nhs.net email address, please upload the form without the signature, and upload a separate page with the signature(s) on. The form will allow you to upload up to five documents in one submission.

If PCSE have been unable to process your certificate, we will have emailed an explanation to the submitter. 

If you need to contact PCSE for further information please quote the case reference for your rejected form. 

If you have checked our end of year guide, videos and other resources [click here] and still need help with PCSE Online you can contact us. 

For more general pension enquires please contact NHS Pensions. 
 

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You can submit after the deadline. 

However, your form may not be processed in time for the NHS Pensions August Total Reward Statement (TRS) refresh. 

If that is the case your NHS Pensions online record will be updated once NHS Pensions have completed the next TRS refresh (date yet to be confirmed). 

You can however contact NHS Pensions to request a statement.

Complete and accurate submissions received by 31 March 2024 deadline are expected to be included in the NHS Pensions August Total Reward Statement (TRS) refresh.

If you were working as a GP Partner/provider or Salaried GP during the 2022/23 financial year and are an NHS Pension scheme member, you will need to complete a 2022/23 form.

The deadline for submitting Type 1 Annual Certificates for the 2022/23 financial year is 31 March, an extension to the original date of 28 February. 

Certificates received before 28 February deadline

All annual pension certificates and related adjustments will be processed and adjustments will be carried out in the usual practice monthly pay run. The information should be visible on the August Total Reward Statement, assuming there are no gaps in the pension record.

Certificates received after 28 February deadline

Any certificates received after 28th February will be processed as they are received, and adjustments will be made in due course.

Any forms received past the deadline may not be reflected in the August Total Reward Statement, but will show on any future statements, assuming there are no gaps in the pension record.

Any adjustments for individual doctors/non-clinical partners will be clearly shown on the practice Open Exeter statement.

The purpose of the certificate is to calculate:

• a provider’s pensionable NHS earnings
• the level at which pension contributions need to be paid, and
  the contributions due
   

PCSE will use this information to reconcile payments received against the certificate and arrange to correct any under or over payments from the previous financial year. 

This certificate must be completed by individual GP providers (i.e. type 1 medical practitioners) and individual non-GP providers who are either partners in practice or working as a single hander.

PCSE can now accept forms without a handwritten signature as long as the contact email address when submitted is an nhs.net email address. If you do not have an nhs.net email address you will need to ensure that the form has a handwritten signature.

If documents are submitted without a hand-written signature, and no nhs.net email address is provided when the documents are sent to PCSE via visiting the Contact Us page and completing a new GP Pensions enquiry, the document(s) will be returned to the sender for re-submission.

Every year, the certificate usually becomes available to download from the NHS Pensions website from November/December.

It should be completed and submitted to PCSE via the enquiries form no later than the 28th of February each year.

The certificate and guidance notes are available to download on the NHS Pensions website.

The certificate should be completed and submitted to PCSE no later than the 28th February each year.

Forms should be submitted to PCSE by visiting the Contact Us page and completing a new GP Pensions enquiry.

Please download the excel form directly from the NHS BSA website, complete it electronically, save it and upload it directly to the online form. As long as you can provide a nhs.net address as a contact email address there is no need to print it off, sign it and scan back in, which often makes the file size much larger.

If you don’t have an nhs.net email address, please upload the excel form without the signature, and upload a separate page with the signature(s) on. The form will allow you to upload up to eight documents in one submission.

Forms can also be completed and sent by post to Primary Care Support England, PO Box 350, Darlington, DL1 9QN.

If you are unable to use PCSE Online, you can download the relevant form from the NHS Pensions website and submit to PCSE by visiting our Contact Us page and completing a new GP Pensions enquiry, from 27 January 2023.