Changes to Nursing and Midwifery Council governing legislation

The government has proposed changes to current the Nursing and Midwifery Council’s governing legislation through changes to the Nursing and Midwifery Order 2001.

These proposed changes will:

• remove statutory midwifery supervision provisions, which will result in a clear separation of the roles and purpose of the supervision and regulation of midwives
• remove the statutory Midwifery Committee from the NMC’s governance structures.
• make improvements to the NMC’s fitness to practise processes to enable further improvements and deal with cases in a more appropriate manner