retro (cop) said:
"pay a fee to the GNC to obtain a registration pin no each year for the privelege to work for the NHS as qualified staff?"
that is not true. paying for your registration to the NMC every year, does NOT give you the priveledge to work for the NHS. It gives you the benefit of being able to work as a qualified nurse. In any sector; public, private, charitable, independent, self employed and so on. Not all nurses working as nurses work for the NHS, (when i recently went to peppa pig world, there was a nurse there) and not all nurses who pay yearly for their registration are ven working