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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

Respond online

or

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

Channel website: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-of-health-and-social-care

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