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Welcome
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 The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) is the largest regulatory body for health professionals. Our remit is to protect the public through setting and monitoring standards, and to deal with those who fail to meet the standards.
The NMC has six main functions:
- Maintaining a register
- Setting standards for education, practice and conduct
- Giving advice
- Considering allegations of misconduct or unfitness to practise
- Quality assuring nursing and midwifery education
- Providing midwifery advice and guidance.
The NMC has probably the largest professional register in the world, with 640,000 nurses, midwives and health visitors on the active register. We are an independent body, accountable to the Privy Council and financed solely by the registration fees of those on the register.
No-one may work as a nurse, midwife or health visitor in the United Kingdom unless they have a current registration with the NMC.
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