2012 Accountability Hearing with the Nursing and Midwifery Council

2012 Accountability Hearing with the Nursing and Midwifery Council
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Total Pages : 88
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ISBN-13 : 9780215054609
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Book Synopsis 2012 Accountability Hearing with the Nursing and Midwifery Council by : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Health Committee

Download or read book 2012 Accountability Hearing with the Nursing and Midwifery Council written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Health Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2013-03-06 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) is a vital safeguard for care quality and patient safety, but "over a number of years the NMC has failed to understand its function and properly prioritise patient safety". The new management team in the NMC is committed to address its failings. However there continues to be a serious gap between current performance and acceptable standards. The NMC has proposed that fitness to practise cases should be decided on average within 18 months of a complaint being received; the Committee proposes that this should be reduced to 9 months, with a maximum of 12 months. The NMC also has had a poor track record of fitness to practise decisions being challenged and overturned. The CHRE has needed to almost routinely refer NMC decisions to the High Court. It is also unacceptable that the NMC underestimated the budget for its fitness to practise directorate by 30%. The Government's intervention to limit the effect of the fee increase on registrants is welcomed. However, nurses and midwives still face a 32% fee increase at a time of public sector pay restraint. A further fee increase can not be justified and the NMC should consider introducing a phased payment system for registrants. The language and communication skills of nurses and midwives remain a concern. MPs also question why the NMC has made such slow progress on a system of revalidation. Lastly, many of the NMC's problems stem from inadequate IT infrastructure where two key systems cannot communicate directly and deliver incomplete or inaccurate information


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