Forum Brief: Healthcare Regulation
Policy Consultation 8 July 2004
Comments from the Health Professions Council, the Nursing and Midwifery Council and the General Medical Council
Forum Brief: Nurse prescribing powers
Policy Consultation 14 April 2004
Comment from the Department of Health, the Royal College of Nursing and the Nursing and Midwifery Council
Forum Brief: Public health
Policy Consultation 3 March 2004
Comments from the Health Development Agency, the Nursing and Midwiffery Council and BUPA, and a government response.
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Forum Brief: Registration fees
Policy Consultation 3 November 2003
The Nursing and Midwifery Council has proposed an increase in their registration fees to £48 a year from August 2004.
Forum Brief: Maternity services
Policy Consultation 24 July 2003
A committee of MPs has concluded that the government is not keeping its promise to give all pregnant women the choice of a home birth.
Forum Brief: NHS standards
Policy Consultation 6 May 2003
NHS patients still experience medical mistakes, inefficiency and poor communication from doctors, according to a survey carried out by the Commonwealth Fund.
Forum Brief: Budget - Public spending
Policy Consultation 9 April 2003
Gordon Brown's Budget reaffirmed promises to maintain 'record investment in schools' and provide 25,000 more doctors and 80,000 more nurses by 2008.
Jonathan Asbridge - president of the Nursing and Midwifery Council
Stakeholder Interview 11 December 2002
Can you explain the role of the NMC?
Forum Brief: Nurse Recruitment
Policy Consultation 10 June 2002
Today's Guardian uses the case of an Australian charge nurse keen to work in the UK to highlight the slow pace of the UK system which vets overseas applications to
Forum Brief: Foreign staff in the NHS
Policy Consultation 7 June 2002
The Department of Health has conceded that teams of foreign doctors and nurses are needed to perform thousands of operations if the government is to meet its ambitious targets for
