NMC calls for regular staff training on learning disability and autism
Training should be specifically tailored to those working in care homes, schools and prisons in addition to hospitals and GP surgeries
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Professional Regulation
NMC to maintain £120 annual registration fee for ‘as long as possible’
The annual registration fee for nurses and midwives was last increased in 2015.
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Nursing associates are the future but ‘not as a substitute for nurses’
Over four-hundred nursing associates have joined the register in the past two months.
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EU nursing qualifications will be recognised after Brexit
Contracts will not need to be changed and staff will not have to re-apply for their current positions.
Read moreCost of test to join NMC register for overseas applicants to be cut
The computer-based test will now cost £90 and the practical exam £794.
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NMC plans to make it easier for nurses to re-join the register
The cost of tests to join NMC register for overseas applicants are also to be cut
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Nurse struck off over failings in care of Stephen Hawking
The nurse faced multiple misconduct charges in relation to the care she provided to Professor Hawking.
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‘We can be kind and regulate well’, insists new NMC Chief
"Our new Fitness to Practise approach is designed to be more mindful of the impact of our processes on registrants"
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