'High earning' NHS doctors to be given flexible pensions

Kim Kaveh
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Senior NHS clinicians could be offered an option to halve their pension contributions in exchange for also halving the rate of pension growth.

In its Interim NHS People Plan, published yesterday (3 June), the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) and the Cabinet Office outlined suggested policies to make NHS pensions "more flexible"...

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