Nursing and Midwifery Council The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) is the regulatory body for all nurses and midwives practising in the UK. All nurses and midwives...
Fitness to practise hearings Fitness to Practise Hearings should be conducted in accordance with the Nursing and Midwifery Order 2001 (NMO 2001) and the Nursing and...
The impairment stage Following the conclusion of the factual stage of the Fitness to Practise (FTP) Hearing process, the committee panel may move on to the impairment...
Interim Orders Interim Orders may be made if they are necessary to protect the public or in the public interest or in the registrant's interest prior to the substantive...
When considering interim orders, the panel should have in mind each of the three options available to them namely, no order, conditions of practice, or suspension—see...
Role of the Investigating Committee The role of the Investigating Committee (IC) panel is to consider: • a fitness to practise (FTP) allegation, or • an allegation that...
Review hearings A review hearing will be held to review a conditions of practice order or suspension order before the end of a specified time period or on an application...
What are NMC sanctions? Where a Practice Committee has concluded that a registrant's fitness to practise is impaired, the committee panel will proceed to consider what,...
Fitness to Practise Committee By virtue of the Nursing and Midwifery (Amendment) Order 2017, SI 2017/321, from 28 July 2017 a single committee, known as the Fitness to...
The panel is invited to consider the indicative sanctions guidance in every case. As each case will be fact specific, the panel has the discretion to depart from the...