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The Nursing and Midwifery Council in the United Kingdom (the “NMC”) has launched a consultation on proposals to change the rules governing fitness to practise, currently contained in the Nursing and Midwifery Council (Fitness to Practise) Rules 2004.
Proposed changes include the power to give advice, to issue warnings and to recommend undertakings, none of which are permitted under the existing rules. The consultation, if implemented, will allow case examiners to conclude cases at an earlier stage as an alternative to referring matters to statutory inquiry.
The consultation by the NMC comes in the wake of a Department of Health consultation which ran from April to June of this year, focusing primarily on changes to the NMC’s governing legislation, the Nursing and Midwifery Order 2001.
This consultation will run from midday on 24 October until midday on 19 December 2016.
Full details of the consultation are available here.
Authors: Lyn McCarthy and Maria Curran