NURSING AND MIDWIFERY COUNCIL
(NMC)QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
UPDATED 2024 -2025
The NMC - ANS It is responsible for regulating the standard of professional practice of all nurses and
midwives in the UK wherever they are working.
The NMC - ANS This covers and applies to people who are in paid employment or working voluntarily.
The NMC - ANS They exist to protect the public and it sets high standards for:
• Initial education and training for nurses and midwives
• Continuing of professional divelopment
• Standards of professional practice
• Standards of personal conduct, both at work and in leisure time
The NMC - ANS Sets the standards and formal codes of practice required of all nurses and midwives.
The NMC - ANS Nurses and midwives have to provide evidence of continuing learning and training in
order to remain on the register.
The NMC - ANS The NMC is a statutory authority set up by Parliament in 2002.
What the NMC does? - ANS • All practising nurses and midwives are required to register with the NMC,
who investigate any allegations that their members are not meeting the standards set.
• The NMC has the power to restrict a nurse's practice, for example to require that they work under
supervision, takes specific training or are restricted to working in a limited number of areas, or to
remove them from the register.
• If a nurse or midwife is removed from the register they are no longer permitted to practice.
(NMC)QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
UPDATED 2024 -2025
The NMC - ANS It is responsible for regulating the standard of professional practice of all nurses and
midwives in the UK wherever they are working.
The NMC - ANS This covers and applies to people who are in paid employment or working voluntarily.
The NMC - ANS They exist to protect the public and it sets high standards for:
• Initial education and training for nurses and midwives
• Continuing of professional divelopment
• Standards of professional practice
• Standards of personal conduct, both at work and in leisure time
The NMC - ANS Sets the standards and formal codes of practice required of all nurses and midwives.
The NMC - ANS Nurses and midwives have to provide evidence of continuing learning and training in
order to remain on the register.
The NMC - ANS The NMC is a statutory authority set up by Parliament in 2002.
What the NMC does? - ANS • All practising nurses and midwives are required to register with the NMC,
who investigate any allegations that their members are not meeting the standards set.
• The NMC has the power to restrict a nurse's practice, for example to require that they work under
supervision, takes specific training or are restricted to working in a limited number of areas, or to
remove them from the register.
• If a nurse or midwife is removed from the register they are no longer permitted to practice.
