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Changes to Nursing and Midwifery Council governing legislation
Seeks views on the proposed changes to the Nursing and Midwifery Council’s midwifery regulation and fitness to practise processes.
The government has proposed changes to current the Nursing and Midwifery Council’s governing legislation through changes to the Nursing and Midwifery Order 2001.
These proposed changes will:
- remove statutory midwifery supervision provisions, which will result in a clear separation of the roles and purpose of the supervision and regulation of midwives
- remove the statutory Midwifery Committee from the NMC’s governance structures.
- make improvements to the NMC’s fitness to practise processes to enable further improvements and deal with cases in a more appropriate manner
This consultation closes at 17 June 2016 11:45pm
Documents
The Nursing and Midwifery Council - amendments to modernise midwifery regulation and improve the effectiveness and efficiency of fitness to practise processes PDF, 482KB, 41 pages
Draft regulation: The Nursing and Midwifery (Amendment) Order 2016 PDF, 343KB, 12 pages
Response form ODT, 90.1KB This file is in an OpenDocument format
Ways to respond
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Email to: HRDListening@dh.gsi.gov.uk
Write to:
NMC S60 Consultation
Professional Standards Branch, Room 2N09
Quality Division, Strategy and External Relations Directorate
Department of Health
Quarry House
Quarry Hill
Leeds
LS2 7UE