Jackie Smith, the chief executive and registrar of the Nursing and Midwifery Council received a £20,000 pay rise this year.
The Nursing and Midwifery Councils financial reports reveal that its CEO and Registrar, Jackie Smith, received a pay rise of around £20,000 bringing her total basic salary to £192,850 for 2016-2017.
However, Ms Smith final remuneration is expected to be significantly more due to pension benefits and annual leave reimbursements.
In a report from the NMC, the regulator said the pay increase for its chief executive followed a review of its senior salary structure.
The report, which is created by the NMC’s remuneration committee, compares the pay of its own executives with those in similar roles.
In total, the NMC’s executive team was paid £1.2m in 2016-2017.
The report went on to state that the NMC has maintained financial stability and noted a significantly higher spending on fitness to practices cases.
Shocking that she is paid more than the person who runs the whole country. How can these salaries be justified?
Do you know what is really shocking; the increases in registration costs (without paying them nurses are legally barred from working) and the disconnect between ordinary nurses and the head of our regulatory body demonstrated by Jackie Smiths thinking that when the staff she supposedly represents have not had a real terms pay rise in, is it 8 years now? It’s ok to accept a pay rise equivalent to almost the entirety of a nurses annual salary. #DISGUSTEDWITHTHENMC
Disgusting, without paying fees we cannot maintain registration and therefore unable to practice. No pay rise for us, but increase in fees, obviously paying for their wage increase. How do they sleep at night? It’s time nurses and midwives stood united and demanded answers. Where is the RCM and RCN standing up for us??? Probably under the covers!! I’ve just retired because fed up with the way staff are treated internally in NHS, but by god I’m pleased having seen this. How dare they think they are above everyone else in wage increase, like everything else ‘do as I say, not do as I do’!! One very dissatisfied retired Nurse/ Midwife.
Jayne I worked for almost twenty years in the NHS then due to ME had to take ill retirement aged 38. I thought myself lucky to get my NHS pension fairly easily after reading how hard it had been for some people. I take it you will be getting yours ? I will warn you now don’t,t expect much in the way of rises. I got my first rise this year for five years . a whole 1%. I don’t expect much but hearing this woman has this massive increase is repellant and a total insult to all nurses in this country . I had to call paymaster last year as DWP wanted to know how much rise I was getting. Told no rise again as no money to fund rises. I didn’t even know it had been a few years since a rise !
wishing you a Happy retirement .x
Jayne I worked for almost twenty years in the NHS then due to ME had to take ill retirement aged 38. I thought myself lucky to get my NHS pension fairly easily after reading how hard it had been for some people. I take it you will be getting yours ? I will warn you now don’t,t expect much in the way of rises. I got my first rise this year for five years . a whole 1%. I don’t expect much but hearing this woman has this massive increase is repellant and a total insult to all nurses in this country . I had to call paymaster last year as DWP wanted to know how much rise I was getting. Told no rise again as no money to fund rises. I didn’t even know it had been a few years since a rise !
wishing you a Happy retirement .x
I love my profession and this organisation is to be blamed of aprox 25% of why my profession is sinking. They should have been disolved since first moment the Francis report was released, they are UNFIT to regulate and expensive to mantain. While nurses and midwives are struggling to make end meets they are increasing their salaries, since when incompetence is awarded? You are a parasite for nursing and midwifery. Public and good nurses and midwives deserve better.
I love my profession and this organisation is to be blamed of aprox 25% of why my profession is sinking. They should have been disolved since first moment the Francis report was released, they are UNFIT to regulate and expensive to mantain. While nurses and midwives are struggling to make end meets they are increasing their salaries, since when incompetence is awarded? You are a parasite for nursing and midwifery. Public and good nurses and midwives deserve better.