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In the past when it came to how the NHS paid your pension, it was very simple. You had a pension based on the number of years' service in the Scheme, your income, and whether you had purchased added years. You also received a tax free lump sum of three times that pension (although GMPs and GDPs have their pension entitlement calculated on a slightly different basis). No thought was required when you reached retirement age.