The importance of evidence in NMC hearings

The importance of evidence in NMC hearings

FollowFollowFollowFollow he recent outcome of a High Court case illustrated the importance of evidence in Nursing and Midwifery Council hearings and sanctions. Muckamore Abbey Hospital Concerns about patient safety at Muckamore Abbey Hospital in Northern Ireland were...
EU nurse qualifications to be recognised in UK after Brexit

NMC’s return to practice proposals

FollowFollowFollowFollow The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) has announced changed to its return to practice procedures to boots the nursing workforce.  Foreign nurses and midwives who want to practise in the UK must comply with UK fitness to practise standards. ...

NMC fitness to practise hearings: Public or private?

FollowFollowFollowFollow The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) is the UK regulatory body for nurses, midwives and nursing associates. Where the fitness to practise of any of these are called into question, they may be referred to a fitness to practise hearing. Is it...

A glimpse at future nurse workforce strategy

FollowFollowFollowFollow A letter signed by Baroness Dido Harding and Julian Hartley, who are both responsible for the development of the NHS workforce implementation plan has warned nursing shortages in England are “unlikely to improve”. In the letter (link at the...