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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Aubrey Allegretti

Doubts grow over number of NHS doctors helped by pension giveaway

Staff on a NHS hospital ward at Ealing Hospital in London.
Staff on a NHS hospital ward at Ealing hospital in London. Photograph: Jeff Moore/PA

The number of hospital doctors that could be helped by Jeremy Hunt’s pensions giveaway has been cast into doubt, after new figures revealed that only 100 of them left the NHS last year due to voluntary early retirement.

Criticism has mounted about the measure announced in the budget, which would scrap the up to 55% tax levied on lifetime pension pots worth just over £1m and raise the annual allowance threshold from £40,000 to £60,000.

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