Is it about time we scrap the NMC?

30-Oct-2009 0:36 am

I think it needs to be improved but not scrapped. there needs to be a system in place to prevent exessive poor care from happening and to push out poor practice. I think if they improve it then it will be much better and more respected.

31-Oct-2009 1:42 pm

Scrap the NMC? What's the debate? It's rubbish - a failing organisation run by jobsworths whose only consistent quality has been the ability to fail nurses. Nurses need an organisation that will lead, protect, drive improvements and reduce poor practice. The NMC does none of those and is more of a liability than an asset.

7-Nov-2009 1:27 pm

Nurses are as individual as they are numerous. Nurses need to take control and take responsibility, otherwise they will continue to be mis-managed and trodden on, and will continue to have among their ranks some of the worst nurses I have ever encountered who are untouchable because of the poor management and lack of cohesion offered by bodies like the NMC, and some of the best nurses who will leave for the same reason.

20-Nov-2009 10:01 am

I see one of the NMC clan is to represent nurses in Europe. Given that many nurses have no faith or trust in the NMC and it has consistently demonstrated its ineptitude and lack of organisation and poor understanding of issues for nurses, how can this be appropriate? Nurses are leaving the profession - good nurses - because of the NMC. So we ask one of them to represent us?

1-Dec-2009 5:47 pm

The apathy about the NMC is typical of the response of those bullied to the bully. Nurses are trodden down by the arrogance of the NMC and the futility of challanging that. The result is inevitably apathy.

16-Dec-2009 7:28 am

I think it is about time we as a profession stopped letting the government use emotional blackmail against us and go on strike. And we shouldn't go back to work until the NMC is scrapped and we have a new union with teeth in it's place, and we have the pay and conditions that reflect OUR worth as a profession!

30-Dec-2009 11:41 am

NMC who are they??? what have they ever done for me in 30 years????? Nothing but gosh they keep taking my money...... I could have had a good holiday!!!!

4-Jan-2010 3:14 pm

Are the NMC the only guilty party here ? The RCN has been working very closely with the NMC for years and has known all along about its ineptitude and bullying, as well as its secretive procedures whose purposes serve nobody but themselves, certainly not "the public" who they profess to protect

The RCN has also known that the NMC has hounded nurses out of the profession using techniques that would not look out of place in Stalinist Russia or the witchunts conducted by the House of Unamerican Activities in 1950s USA. Their legal department sees these injustices on an almost daily basis But what have they done about it? Nothing. As long as the NMC are made out to be "the bad guys" they are quite content to tut tut about it in private, as its well renumerated "legal team" are more interested in lining its own pockets while the chaos continues.

It was not the RCN or nurses themselves that complained to a Scottish MP, which led to a full govermental review of the NMC and its procedures. It was an NMC employee. I find that very telling.

Senior managers at the NMC may have resigned as a consequence of the government investigation and they are now being closely monitored by the CHRE. And am sure the RCN are privatly saying "about time".

But if they knew about it, which they most certainly did, why were they not the ones petitioning to have the NMC investigated by the department of health years ago ?

We are not in a position to boycott paying the NMC as things currently stand. However we can withold the far more substantial monthly fee that the RCN seems to expect for a service they cannot, will not or refuse to provide.

My direct debit will be cancelled as of this month - I suggest anyone reading this do likewise until they wake up and listen.

10-Jan-2010 12:22 pm

I am surprised that there are not more outraged postings on here! I have yet to meet or coerrespond with anyone with a good word to say for the NMC, but plenty who have suffered or experienced poor management at their hands. There is militant talk, but as yet little action or real fight from nurses about the body paid to govern them. Is the NMC who you would choose to manage your profession? I don't think so!!

10-Jan-2010 7:08 pm

It does give every appearance of being stitched up, but the clear arrogance of the NMC must surely anger nurses?