A MARS is a form of voluntary severance. It’s designed to allow employees, in agreement with their employer, to choose to leave their employment voluntarily in return for a severance payment.
MARS is not redundancy and is not linked to the NHS Pension Scheme.
For NHS Pension purposes, a member who accepts MARS has voluntarily resigned from their post.
Read more information on MARS on the NHS employers website.
Any member who opts for MARS may be able to apply for:
- Actuarially Reduced Early Retirement (ARER)
- age retirement
- consideration of entitlement to early payment of preserved benefits on the grounds of ill health.
Read more information on age retirement, ARER and early payment of deferred benefits due to ill health on our website.