What can you do to ensure a comfortable retirement?

My mother is retiring next year.

What can she do now, within the UK personal finance spectrum (savings schemes, tax credits, pension scheme tricks and tips, discount schemes for pensioners) that will mean she can enjoy a nice lump sum on retirement?

She worked for the NHS for a time, but now works in a private health care and I'm pretty sure she has a private pension scheme too. Does that change things?

All answers ABOVE BOARD please! :o]

Answer:
start saving early in life!!
Above board? What does that mean?

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