Guidance archive
The guidance below only applies to hearings that started before 28 July 2017. For our current decision maker guidance please see our fitness to practise guidance library.
- Fraudulent and incorrect entry guidance
 - Case to answer guidance
 - Interim Order guidance
 - Interim Order Review Meetings – Legal framework
 - Interim Order Review Meetings – Panel Process
 - CCC Chair’s Guidance – Private meeting or Public Hearing?
 - Chair’s guide for a panel of the Conduct and Competence Committee and Health Committee holding a meeting (rather than a hearing)
 - Chair’s guide for CCC substantive 'meeting'
 - Chair’s guide for substantive hearings
 - Guidance on notice of hearing in resuming hearings
 - NMC Criteria on Substantive Meetings
 - Consensual panel determination
 - Voluntary removal guidance
 - Remediation and insight guidance
 - Guidance for Practice Committees on the use of chemical testing
 - Telephone evidence
 - Guidance on material placed before panels at substantive hearings
 - Indicative sanctions guidance for panels
 - Information for panels – Documentation sent to registrants
 - Substantive Order Review guidance
 - Guidance to panels on conditions of practice orders
 - Guidance on holding hearings outside of the country of registered address
 - Conditions of Practice Library
 - Language impairment guidance
 - Offering no evidence guidance
 - Cancelling hearings under Rule 33
 - The Nursing and Midwifery Council (Fitness to Practise) Rules 2004 – consolidated text
 - The Nursing and Midwifery Order 2001 – consolidated text