News and updates
News and updates about our work, projects and priorities
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Blog: Strengthening our voice to lead
Published on 13 June 2019
Greta Westwood is Chief Operating Officer of the Florence Nightingale Foundation. She is a Florence Nightingale Foundation Leadership Scholar (2012) and remains
NMC Council member Ruth Walker recognised in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list
Published on 07 June 2019
Ruth Walker, NMC Council member, has been awarded an MBE for services to nursing.
Our response to the independent review of gross negligence manslaughter and culpable homicide
Published on 06 June 2019
Read our response
Our response to the publication of the interim NHS People Plan
Published on 03 June 2019
Today’s publication of the interim NHS People Plan
Blog: A nurse’s role in promoting health and preventing ill health (from the bedside to the bingo hall)
Published on 31 May 2019
Read the latest blog from Sue West, Senior Nursing Education Adviser
NMC publishes corporate plan for 2019-2020
Published on 30 May 2019
Find out what we’re focusing on this year
Blog: Speed dating at the NMC
Published on 28 May 2019
Gill Walton is Chief Executive and General Secretary of the Royal College of Midwives (RCM). Read her perspective on the development of our new five year strate
NMC response to Panorama: Undercover Hospital Abuse Scandal
Published on 23 May 2019
Read our response
Blog: Insights from a global perspective
Published on 17 May 2019
David Benton is Chief Executive of the National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN), a US-based not-for-profit organisation aiming to advance regulatory
Blog: Defining our new approach to fitness to practise
Published on 16 May 2019
NMC Director of Fitness to Practise, Matthew McClelland talks through what's new about the new approach and what's still in process.
Blog: We've come a long way
Published on 12 May 2019
Avril Devaney, MBE, Director of Nursing at Cheshire and Wirral Trust, looks back on her career and forward to future developments.
Blog: Being a nurse is being there for people
Published on 12 May 2019
Stacey Finlay, Acting Sister at Domnall Intermediate Care Centre, has three pieces of advice for new nurses.
Blog: We were different we were supernumerary
Published on 12 May 2019
Claire Clarke, Clinical Development nurse at Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Trust, was in the early cohorts of nursing trainees to make the move from hospi
Blog: Andrea Sutcliffe and Mary Renfrew say a big Thank you for taking part
Published on 09 May 2019
After 12 weeks of nationwide public engagement our consultation on the draft future midwife standards has finished
Blog: What do the latest figures from the NMC register tell us?
Published on 08 May 2019
Candace Imison, NMC's director of strategy development, outlines what the latest figures from the NMC register say about the challenges faced by the nursing and
Read our latest registration data report
Published on 08 May 2019
We've published figures from April 2018 to March 2019
Blog: Why I became a midwife
Published on 05 May 2019
Carmen Cross, Head of Midwifery at Royal Bournemouth hospital talks about the personal experience that shaped her career.
Blog: What do stakeholders think of us? Now we know.
Published on 02 May 2019
In her latest blog, our Chief Executive, Andrea Sutcliffe, talks about a stakeholder perceptions audit recently commissioned by the NMC.
NMC’s performance review for 2017-2018 published
Published on 23 April 2019
Our response to the report
Blog: #FutureNMC and #FutureMidwife
Published on 16 April 2019
In her latest blog, our Chief Executive, Andrea Sutcliffe, talks about our #FutureMidwife and #FutureNMC campaigns. She also reflects on visits to Royal Bournem