Please sign this petition

[roxie_09]

The Nursing and Midwifery council are trying to heighten the annual fee for nurses to do their jobs, from £76 to £120. I would be really grateful and I think a lot of other nurses would be too! Thanks xxx

http://epetitions.dir...ov.uk/petitions/34101

[Buenchico]

Please could somebody explain to me how the NMC will be able to its job if it doesn't have the funds to do so?

See here:
http://www.nmc-uk.org...to-seek-fee-increase/

[tank1960]

Signed

[Caran]

Signed.

[roxie_09]

Thanks all :-) xxx

[chi-chi66]

tried again......saying I can't sign this petition again!!!! not signed it yet

did'nt recognise my email no. last time.

again..sorry!!!! I am in support!!!

[Sqad]

I agree with Buenchico.........having a baby is a risky business and one study showed that there were malpractice claims in up to 50% of childbirths and in this area of medicine, there are the highest claims for negligence.

If i read this correctly it is a sort of medical insurance that all medical staff have to pay in one form or another.

The number of legal cases against medical staff and midwives have risen dramatically over the past 15years, with the result of large
financial payouts.

Who will foot the bill?

[woofgang]

Its not a medical insurance as such. The charges are to fund the regulatory body.
This protects the professional title and offers reassurance to the public that the individual professional has undertaken the standard training and been adjudged fit to practice,(passed the exams) that they have kept up their professional development and that they are a fit and proper person to practice which covers things like deliberate or accidental malpractice, personal behaviour (drugs, alcohol, honesty, ethics and so on)
Sadly we are becoming a more litigious society and this is is one of the consequences.