Nursing and Midwifery Council

1. NURSING & MIDWIFERY COUNCIL Nursing and Midwifery Council Protecting the public through professional standards.

2. NURSING & MIDWIFERY COUNCIL Nursing and Midwifery Order 2001 • Public protection • Fitness for practice through professional standards

3. NURSING & MIDWIFERY COUNCIL The Nursing and Midwifery Council has 35 members: • 11 lay people • 8 nurses • 8 midwives • 8 health visitors(Elections will be held in 2005)

4. NURSING & MIDWIFERY COUNCIL Key responsibilities to: • 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)

5. NURSING & MIDWIFERY COUNCIL Major tasks set out in the Order: • quality assurance of education (2002) • midwifery advice and guidance (2002) • establish a new register (2004) • new professional conduct rules (2005) • election scheme (by 2005)

6. NURSING & MIDWIFERY COUNCIL Quality assurance - the strategic tasks: • 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

7. NURSING & MIDWIFERY COUNCIL Quality assurance – the context: • A UK-wide responsibility • The closure of the UKCC and National Boards • A new spirit of collaboration

8. NURSING & MIDWIFERY COUNCIL Quality assurance - the model: • The ‘visitor’ model for England • Service level agreements for Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales

9. NURSING & MIDWIFERY COUNCIL Quality assurance – the requirements: • Programme specific regulatory criteria • Standards and guidance • Codes and benchmarks

10. NURSING & MIDWIFERY COUNCIL Quality Assurance - the process: • institutional approval • approval/re-approval • annual monitoring • major review

11. NURSING & MIDWIFERY COUNCIL Quality Assurance – practice learning: • 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

12. NURSING & MIDWIFERY COUNCIL Quality Assurance – the future? • 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

13. NURSING & MIDWIFERY COUNCIL The QA Team Education AdvisersProfessional Advisers Garth Long Pam Walter Roger Thompson Janice Gosby Susan Way Quality Assurance Administrators Janet Lawson Suzanne Fookes Tel: 0207 333 6560 Email: QATeam@nmc-uk.org