22nd April 2016
The Department of Health (DH) is seeking views on the proposed changes to the Nursing and Midwifery Council’s midwifery regulation and fitness to practise processes.
The government has proposed changes to current the Nursing and Midwifery Council’s governing legislation through changes to the Nursing and Midwifery Order 2001.
These proposed changes will:
- remove statutory midwifery supervision provisions, which will result in a clear separation of the roles and purpose of the supervision and regulation of midwives
- remove the statutory Midwifery Committee from the NMC’s governance structures.
- make improvements to the NMC’s fitness to practise processes to enable further improvements and deal with cases in a more appropriate manner
This consultation closes at 11:45pm on
Dr Cheryll Adams, executive director of the iHV, said:
These proposed changes will have an impact on those health visitors who were direct entry midwives – for the better. It will mean that they don’t have to go through a second tier of fitness to practise.
