I know I am not yet a nurse. I am about to start my training. However I was concerned to read that Nursing Midwifery Council is considering an increase to their annual fee from £100 to £120.
The NMC is the largest register of health care professional worldwide. At this time it has over 670,000. With that number people must take action on the fee increases.
Now there is a petition on the United Kingdom Government Number ten website. It is said that "This e-petition remains open to signatures and will be considered for debate by the Backbench Business Committee should it pass the 100 000 signature threshold."
Also Parliament is supposed to debate all petitions should they pass 100 000 signatures. So please sign this petition. At the time of writing the petition has [COLOR=#231f20]97,469 signatures. Please help us do better and sign it if you have not already.
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just joining back in, Hi XB9S Guide, perhaps I just hadn't written that clearly - what I meant by the total amount which I pay, is the NMC fees plus what I pay to a professional indemnity provider comes to the total of £296.80 per year - so for nearly £300 a year I can practice legally and with cover. I personally do not object to paying this amount, further I did not mean to imply that the NMC provides professional indemnity, I think every qualified nurse would be clear that that is not the case, but apologise for the paucity of my writing skills....Really glad we got some debate going and the number has been achieved though, it'll be interesting to hear the bigger debate ....
Just to inform you but the petition has 100,458 signatures.
However that is not the important part. The important part is what NMC has said. They have commented:[h=1]"NMC comment on fees e-petition[/h]Date:02/05/2014
We note that the petition "No to proposed increase in fees for Nurses and Midwives" has hit the 100,000 signatures mark.
When we consulted on the registration fee in 2012, we made it clear that we needed a fee of £120 per registrant, based on our financial assumptions at the time. The government grant of £20 million enabled us to maintain the fee at £100 for two years. Nothing has changed since then and we believe the assumptions we made at the time remain the same, which is why we are about to consult on increasing the fee by £20.
Nurses and midwives are not alone in paying a registration fee. All 36 of the regulated healthcare professionals, including dental nurses and doctors, pay a registration fee to their regulator. Fees for other healthcare profession regulators range from between £160 for two years to over £700 annually"
"When we consulted on the registration fee in 2012, we made it clear that we needed a fee of £120 per registrant, based on our financial assumptions at the time. The government grant of £20 million enabled us to maintain the fee at £100 for two years. Nothing has changed since then and we believe the assumptions we made at the time remain the same, which is why we are about to consult on increasing the fee by £20."
I would have thought that was clear, we had all the info back two years ago, so the latest rise is not a surprise.
But I would still like to know why they occupy such an expensive London address.
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just joining back in, Hi XB9S Guide, perhaps I just hadn't written that clearly - what I meant by the total amount which I pay, is the NMC fees plus what I pay to a professional indemnity provider comes to the total of £296.80 per year - so for nearly £300 a year I can practice legally and with cover. I personally do not object to paying this amount, further I did not mean to imply that the NMC provides professional indemnity, I think every qualified nurse would be clear that that is not the case, but apologise for the paucity of my writing skills....Really glad we got some debate going and the number has been achieved though, it'll be interesting to hear the bigger debate ....