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Fitness to Practice
All things FtP – including how and what to prepare in advance, our Buddy Scheme, Employment Issues and Regulation.
NMCWatch statement for National Safeguarding Adults Week 2025
Protecting patients means protecting those who speak up. This Safeguarding Week, NMCWatch...
Ishbel Straker fights back
Today Ishbel Straker begins a campaign about the issues she has experienced when referred to the...
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...
Recovery after FtP
As I reach my eighth year of NMCWatch, I am thinking back to the person I was on 12th June 2017,...
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
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...
The number of FtP referrals by NHS Trusts – data release
Today, NMCWatch is releasing a unique set of data on the number of fitness to practice (FtP)...
Remember your Code of Conduct NMC Council
Letter to reg council members 20.8.24 Requesting vote of no confidence in Chair – Sir David Warren...