Nursing and Midwifery council ( not fit for purpose) my words.

sodapop

Louisa & Casdon sorry to have intruded on your thread, I will be more careful in future, slight digression obviously unwelcome.
GN seems to getting very sharp of late.

It’s always relevant to read the original post before responding sodapop, but I wasn’t having a go at you personally, I’m sorry if it came across as sharp.

growstuff I never said the NMC was part of the NHS, just that what the NMC does affects the morale and behaviour of nurses and midwives, most of whom work in the NHS and that means it can affect the standard of care given by the NHS, if there are nurses working who are not safe to be around patients, when nurses cannot get redress against racist words and behaviour and when nurses can be driven to suicide because of excessive waits for rulling son complaints.

Welbeck quotes the NMC refuses to take action against a nurse who possessed the worst category of child abuse images, and another accused of rape, on the grounds that these issues related to their personal lives, not their work. How do you think the nurses working with these people felt?

Nurses and midwives demoralised and stressed because of the failures in their regulating body are not going to be capable of doing the best by their patients - and that affects the standard of care offered by the NHS.

MOnica I know full well that the NMC affects a small minority of nurses and midwifes - those who are are being investigated for malpractice. The effect on staff morale and/or patient experience caused by the NMC is nowhere near the effects from other sources within hospitals and NHS systems themselves.

This is my last contribution to this thread. I read the whole report because I have a small interest. My daughter worked at the NMC about 8 or 9 years ago on a temporary contract. She hated it and still says it's one of the worst jobs she's ever had. She works in HR, so there wasn't even anybody to complain to - she spent her time dealing with complaints from NMC staff themselves. That's what this report is about!

Incidentally, it's not up to the NMC to take action against a nurse in possession of pornographic images. That's up to the police and the employer. The NMC cannot take direct action.

Nurses and midwives are stressed and demoralised as a result of their working conditions, over which the NMC has absolutely no control.

My wife gave up 8 yrs ago, after over 30 yrs, it had become a scripted box ticking exercise, care was secondary, there just was not time to do what was needed