Nursing and Midwifery Council

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Nursing and Midwifery Council
NURSING MIDWIFERY COUNCIL

• Protecting the public through professional
  standards.

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Nursing and Midwifery Order 2001
NURSING MIDWIFERY COUNCIL

• Public protection
• Fitness for practice through professional
  standards

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The Nursing and Midwifery Council has 35
members
NURSING MIDWIFERY COUNCIL

• 11 lay people
• 8 nurses
• 8 midwives
• 8 health visitors(Elections will be held in
  2005)

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Key responsibilities to
NURSING MIDWIFERY COUNCIL

• maintain the register
• set and improve standards
• give advice
• deal with misconduct
• quality assure education
• set standards and provide guidance for LSAs
• (for midwifery supervision)

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Major tasks set out in the Order
NURSING MIDWIFERY COUNCIL

• quality assurance of education (2002)
• midwifery advice and guidance (2002)
• establish a new register (2004)
• new professional conduct rules (2005)
• election scheme (by 2005)

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Quality assurance - the strategic tasks
NURSING MIDWIFERY COUNCIL

• Establishing the standards of education and
  training for fitness for practice for programmes
  that lead to registration or to recording on the
  register.
• Taking steps to satisfy ourselves that those
  standards have been met

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Quality assurance the context
NURSING MIDWIFERY COUNCIL

• A UK-wide responsibility
• The closure of the UKCC and National Boards
• A new spirit of collaboration

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Quality assurance - the model
NURSING MIDWIFERY COUNCIL

• The visitor model for England
• Service level agreements for Northern Ireland,
  Scotland and Wales

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Quality assurance the requirements
NURSING MIDWIFERY COUNCIL

• Programme specific regulatory criteria
• Standards and guidance
• Codes and benchmarks

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Quality Assurance - the process
NURSING MIDWIFERY COUNCIL

• institutional approval
• approval/re-approval
• annual monitoring
• major review

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Quality Assurance practice learning
NURSING MIDWIFERY COUNCIL

• Outcome focused activity
• Sufficient resources
• Quality learning environments
• Adequate support and supervision
• Valid and reliable assessment
• Robust AP(E)L processes
• Parity between theory and practice

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Quality Assurance the future?
NURSING MIDWIFERY COUNCIL

• new NMC standards
• adjustments to meet the needs of the new register
• ongoing evaluation and review of the UK-wide QA
  model
• collaboration to streamline QA process in England

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The QA Team
NURSING MIDWIFERY COUNCIL

• Education Advisers Professional Advisers
• Garth Long Pam Walter
• Roger Thompson Janice Gosby
• Susan Way
• Quality Assurance Administrators
• Janet Lawson Suzanne Fookes
• Tel [phone] Email QATeam_at_nmc-uk.org