2023/24 Type 1

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

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

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

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.

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. 

If you are aware of any previous years that are missing certificates, please submit the appropriate form for the missing year via PCSE Online. If you have downloaded an Excel form from the NHS Pensions website, you can submit  via the GP Pensions contact us form. 

Please see the NHSBSA website for guidance on calculating pensionable pay.

Visit https://www.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/search and enter pensionable pay as a search term.

You will need to revert your form to draft status before you can update it and resubmit it. 

Log into PCSE Online, and click GP Pensions and Payments, then Pensions and then Annual Certificates– Type 1. 

You can then click on ‘NHS Pension Scheme Annual Income listing’, and this is where you’ll see all current and previous forms. 

These are normally listed in date order, so you can sort on the ‘Financial Year’ column so the most recent is at the top of the list. 

Check you have the right certificate, in the ‘Declaration Status’ column, it will say Rejected. 

To revert a form to Draft status, 

• click on the red symbol (a circular arrow) in the ‘Revert to draft’ column
• A pop message will appear
• Click on Confirm
• the status will change to Draft. 

To edit, then resubmit, a form that in draft status, click on the relevant blue link in the ‘Form ID’ column.

You can now edit or submit your completed form.

For GPs who submitted their end of year form via the Contact Us form, you will need to update and resubmit via the same method. 

Log into PCSE Online, and click GP Pensions and Payments, then Pensions and then Annual Certificate – Type 1. 

You can then click on ‘NHS Pension Scheme Annual Income listing’, and this is where you’ll see all current and previous forms. 

These are normally listed in date order, so you can sort on the ‘Financial Year’ column so the most recent is at the top of the list. 

Check you have the right certificate, in the ‘Declaration Status’ column, it will say Draft. 

To edit a form that in draft status, click on the relevant blue link in the ‘Form ID’ column.

If any years are showing as already initiated in the Type 1 or Type 2 screen, you need to go the Listing Screen button to see forms that are in draft status or have already been completed or processed. 

If this doesn't resolve the issue then please contact PCSE. Please visit the link below, this page shows all ways you can contact us. https://pcse.england.nhs.uk/contact-us/gp-pensions-enquiries

You will need to revert your form to draft status before you can update it and resubmit it. 

Log into PCSE Online, and click GP Pensions and Payments, then Pensions and then Self Assessments– Type 2. 

You can then click on ‘NHS Pension Scheme Annual Income listing’, and this is where you’ll see all current and previous forms. 

These are normally listed in date order, so you can sort on the ‘Financial Year’ column so the most recent is at the top of the list. 

Check you have the right certificate, in the ‘Declaration Status’ column, it will say Rejected. 

To revert a form to Draft status, 

• click on the red symbol (a circular arrow) in the ‘Revert to draft’ column
• A pop message will appear
• Click on Confirm
• the status will change to Draft. 

To edit, then resubmit, a form that in draft status, click on the relevant blue link in the ‘Form ID’ column.

You can now edit or submit your completed form.

For GPs who submitted their end of year form via the Contact Us form, you will need to update and resubmit via the same method. 

Yes, simply click 'save for later' and the form will be saved as a draft.  

You can then retrieve the draft form from the Listings screen. Find out more here - the process is the same for both Type 1 and Type 2 forms. 

Once you have submitted your form for processing on PCSE Online, its status will show as 'declarated' on the Type 2 Listings screen. 

This needs to be corrected before the certificate can be reconciled. 

Please use the “Pensions Contribution Query” option on the Contact Us form and provide the details of how what you are expecting to see on your statement differs from what PCSE Online is showing so that we can investigate for you.

Added Years contributions are a type of Additional Voluntary Contributions (AVCs). 

The total amount of AVCs paid for added years, additional pension and early retirement reduction buy out (ERRBO) needs to be added in box 7. 

For more information see NHS Pensions Guidance.