It is administered by the NHS Business Services Authority, a special health authority of the Department of Health of the United Kingdom.
[2] The NHS Pension Scheme has 1.7 million members actively contributing, 713,000 deferred members and 1 million pensioners receiving benefits.
[3] The benefits and conditions vary according to the type of worker and the dates of their service.
They are based on final salary and years of membership of the scheme (members who joined before 1 April 2015) or career average salary (members who joined after 1 April 2015).
[4] Members can increase their contributions if they wish to get larger benefits (within certain limits).