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Regulation
Nurses and midwives
From Mr S. Skyte
I am afraid that incorrect information was provided to The Journal about
the regulation of nurses and midwives.
In the article on how health care professions manage their non-practising
members (PJ, 23 July, p109), the statement that nurses and midwives pay
a registration fee regardless of whether they are in practice is not accurate,
nor is the statement that they are on the register for life. That might
have been the case 15 years ago but it is not now. When they renew their
registration every three years, nurses and midwives have to confirm that
they have undertaken a specific minimum number of hours in practice. If
they cannot do this, their registration lapses. Far from always being on
the register, the current Nursing and Midwifery Council register of some
670,000 people reflects nurses and midwives in actual practice.
It is also not the case that retired practitioners can stay on the register
regardless of whether they are in practice. Unless they renew their registration
based on the minimum practice hours, their registration lapses.
Stuart Skyte
Head of Communications
Nursing and Midwifery Council |
The
Pharmaceutical Journal