Blogs
Fitness to Practice
All things FtP – including how and what to prepare in advance, our Buddy Scheme, Employment Issues and Regulation.
When the Regulator Gets It Wrong: High Court exposure and the Human Cost of NMC Fitness to Practise Proceedings
In January 2026, the High Court handed down a significant judgment in the case of Nurrish v...
Continuous Interim Order extensions: what can be done?
For a long time now it has become almost routine that the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) will...
Another NMC ‘dishonesty’ charge fail
Nurrish v Nursing and Midwifery Council: When Process Fails, Outcomes Cannot Be Trusted. The High...
NMCWatch statement for National Safeguarding Adults Week 2025
Protecting patients means protecting those who speak up. This Safeguarding Week, NMCWatch...
Buddy Scheme
Mental Health First Aid
Nine members of NMCWatch are now mental health first aiders. We qualified in 2023 via the MHFA...
Being a Buddy. Why On Earth do I do it?
When I offered to write about why I became a Buddy I thought hard and decided to start with a...
Life after No Case to Answer
One Whirlwind Week Life After No Case to AnswerIt’s coming two years now since my Hearing. It took...
Buddying the Buddies: 1 year on
Last year we launched our buddy service with thanks to The Laura Hyde Foundation for giving us...
Drafting of allegations / Charges
The NMC outlines why they have guidance on drafting of charges and it is fundamentally to ensure...
Emotional support for nurses facing FtP proceedings – by registrants who’ve been there (Nursing Standard 2.8.21)
Kimberley Hackett - @kj_hackett Posted 02 August 2021 - 16:57 1 Volunteers needed to train...
Regulation & Employment issues
“I have a chance to fix things” – The NMC whistleblower who took his own life in the hope that his death would bring change.
Written by a former NMC staff member and whistleblower. TRIGGER WARNING: this article...
Why does the NMC keep ignoring Appeals judges?
Since 2009 we know of more than 50 cases where a High Court Judge has ruled that the decision by...
NMCWatch statement for National Safeguarding Adults Week 2025
Protecting patients means protecting those who speak up. This Safeguarding Week, NMCWatch...
The NMC’s ongoing failings: a regulator losing the confidence of its registrants.
The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) exists to protect the public by regulating the nursing and...
Our vexatious referral: lack of insight or a grief response?
NMCWatch has been working with Simon Holborn, from Humans Ltd, for a number of years now. It...
Persistence through the FOI swamp
Despite constant barriers, our chief Freedom of Information requester has been plugging away at...
Help Roger Kline investigate – deadline 31 Jan
Roger Kline is launching research into workplace investigations. As part of this, he is inviting...
Job applications: disclosing past investigations is prejudicial and intrusive.
The issue of disclosing past investigations, particularly those that concluded with "no case to...
