Transferring health workers can keep pension rights

By Helen Warrell and John Plummer, Third Sector Online, 27 June 2008

The Social Enterprise Coalition has welcomed the news that the Government will allow health workers transferring from the NHS to social enterprise health services to keep their public sector pension rights.

The move, which is expected to be announced on Monday in Lord Darzi's review of the future of the NHS, will remove one of the major barriers to NHS staff forming independent healthcare social enterprises. Even major health enterprises such as Central Surrey Health, which is run by the nursing...

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