NHS Pension Board
The NHS Pension Board provides scrutiny and assurance of the administration of the NHS Pension Scheme.
Role of group
The NHS Pension Board’s role is to hold the NHS Pension Scheme’s administrator to account for administration of the NHS Pension Schemes (both the new 2015 scheme and the old scheme consisting of the 1995 and 2008 sections).
Main responsibilities
The NHS Pension Board’s main responsibilities are:
- overseeing assurance and governance of the administration of the NHS Pension Schemes, including compliance with the Pension Regulator’s codes of practice
- ensuring the scheme administrator supports employers to effectively communicate the benefits to members of the NHS Pension Scheme and fully utilise it as part of the NHS total reward offer
- ensuring the scheme administrator supports members to improve their understanding of their pension benefits as part of the total reward offer, and to inform their personal financial and career planning
- supporting effective implementation of the Employers Charter
- consideration of the annual report from the Pension Regulator, including any responses to recommendations
- produce an annual report that summarises the work of the Board
Membership
The NHS Pension Board has an equal number of employer and member representatives and is overseen by an independent chair.
Members are appointed after being nominated by NHS trades unions and employer organisations. The independent chair is a ministerial appointment, following the public appointments process.
Non-employer or member representatives such as Department of Health and Social Care officials and Welsh Government representatives attend NHS Pension Board meetings in an observer capacity.
Chair
Helen Miles
Member representatives
- Glyn Jenkins, Head of Pensions, Unison
- Chris Musgrave, National Officer, Royal College of Nursing
- Elaine Sparkes, Assistant Director of Employment Relations and Union Services, Chartered Society of Physiotherapy
- Geoff Lester, NHS Pension Board Representative, Federation of Clinical Scientists
- Dr David Bailey, Chair of BMA pensions committee, BMA
- Colenzo Jarrett-Thorpe, National Officer Health Community, Youth & Play workers , Unite the Union
Employer representatives
- Wayne Evans, Deputy Payroll Manager, NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership
- Andrea Hester, Assistant Director of Pensions and Reward, NHS Employers
- Bryan Logan, Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust, Payroll Manager
- Stuart Murdoch, Pension Adviser, Capita PLC
- Nina Singh, Director of Workforce and Organisational Development, West London NHS Trust
- Amanda Bromley, HR Director of Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust
Terms of reference
Summaries of meeting minutes
Read summaries of previous NHS Pension Board meeting minutes
Annual reports
NHS Pension Board annual report: 2021 to 2022
NHS Pension Board annual report: 2020 to 2021
NHS Pension Board annual report: 2019 to 2020
NHS Pension Board annual report: 2018 to 2019
NHS Pension Board annual report: 2017 to 2018
NHS Pension Board annual report: 2016 to 2017
NHS Pension Board annual report: 2015 to 2016
‘Shadow’ Pension Board annual report: July 2014 to March 2015
Contact details
For NHS Pension Board queries (for example, about membership or meeting dates), email pension.board@dhsc.gov.uk.
The NHS Pension Board cannot help with queries or complaints about personal circumstances. If you have a question about your pension, the scheme administrator will be able to help you. Please email nhsbsa.pensionsmember@nhsbsa.nhs.uk.
For questions relating to NHS Pension Scheme policy, please email the Department of Health and Social Care at dhsc.publicenquiries@dhsc.gov.uk.