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As some of you may know, or not, the NMC recently conducted a consultation as part of a review of pre-registration nurse education. Organisations and individuals were asked to answer these five questions: -

The final report into that consultation is out now and available on the NMC website. Don’t worry, there’s a management summary at the beginning, so you don’t have to wade through all 137 pages.

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It’s that time of year again. The Nursing and Midwifery Council want 76 quid off me to maintain my registration as a nurse. 76 bastard quid. All to be paid in one lump sum. No options for paying by monthly instalments. Ouch.

Just for comparison purposes, if you’re a social worker the General Social Care Council will only charge you 30 quid a year.

Still, I guess I can’t complain about lack of value of money. After all, the NMC do send me a deeply boring magazine every once in a while, and the Council for Healthcare Regulatory Excellence says such nice things about them.

CHRE Chief Executive Harry Cayton said: “We have serious concerns about the inadequate operation of the NMC’s fitness to practice processes, governance framework and lack of strategic leadership, the inconsistent availability and provision of information to council to ensure effective planning and decision making and its ability as an organisation to retain the confidence of key stakeholders.”

Seventy bastard six bastard quid.

Or: “Who will guard the guards?”

The DoH has a current consultation:

The Nursing and Midwifery (Amendment) Order 2008 was made on 11 June. It makes a number of changes to the constitutional arrangements for the Nursing and Midwifery Council. Instead of the constitutional details of the NMC being set out the in the Nursing and Midwifery Order 2001, these details must now be set out in a separate Constitution Order made by the Privy Council.

You see, there’s been some shenanigans down at the Old Bailey for Nurses & Midwives and now parliament is taking the NMC’s ball away until they learn to play nicely.

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Ok, that was a slight exaggeration, adding a bit of sensationalism, but the above point may come true in the future.

The NMC are currently running a review of pre-registration nursing education.

Questions include:

should nurses be prepared to diploma or degree level?

what proportion of a pre-registration programme should be spent learning in practice?

should shared learning be a requirement?

should there be generalist and/or branch programmes, and if so, what should the branches be?

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Dear Zarathustra

You snivelling little worm. So you went and finished your nursing studies, did you? Well, you may have spent the last three years trying to live off £6000 a year, and as a result be about £8000 in debt, and you may be still waiting for your first month’s pay, but we’re still going to have our wicked way with you.

We want £76 off you. Just for the right to be able to call yourself “nurse”. Yep, 76 quid. Just make the cheque out to “My New Overlords and Masters, The Nursing and Midwifery Council”. While we’re at it, can you also bend over and drop your trousers so we can get some “executive relief” in your cornhole?

Yours Sincerely

The Nursing and Midwifery Council

PS You are now our bitch. And you will be forever. Well, at least until we decide to strike you off.