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[MrMagoo]

Surely ill health retirement should be available for NHS workers who are in their pension scheme and are long term sick with any illness whether it is classed as industrial injury or not.

Highly unlikely, with ill health retirement at full rate you need an illness that is guaranteed it won’t improve. And it’s guaranteed there is no treatment.

With LC both are unknown, you would be lucky to get ill health retired at half rate with a review after a year or three.

You will most likely be off sick, then dismissed for sickness after an average time scale (after pay and SSP has finished) with no industrial injury payment paperwork, or extended pay or grace period, and no associated benefits.

You will be no better off than say, someone who develops ME/CFS one day out of the blue. You would be much worse off than, say, a fellow nurse who is attacked by a patient and left unable to work.