Government questioned on its ‘assessment’ of NMC performance

The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has been asked what ‘assessment’ the government has made on the ‘adequacy’ of the Nursing and Midwifery Council’s (NMC’s) performance. But health minister Karin Smyth stressed that healthcare professional regulation in the UK is ‘founded on the principle of regulators operating independently from the government’. Though she...Read moreThe post Government questioned on its ‘assessment’ of N