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Support during your FtP investigation
NMCWatch supports nurses, midwives, and other healthcare professionals, going through Fitness to Practice investigations by their regulator or employer.
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NMCWatch supports nurses, midwives, and other healthcare professionals, going through Fitness to Practice investigations by their regulator or employer.
How we help
Case study 22 – NMC must reform procedures
This midwife qualified in 2014 and began her career working at a Trust in North-East England working under the preceptorship program. Preceptorship enables newly qualified nurses and midwives to receive ongoing supervision as they enter the working...
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Our Mission
We are passionate about supporting and empowering members during this process. By providing a positive space we enable and encourage people to share their experiences…
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We’ve helped over 500 registrants get through FtP. So far.
Since 2017 we have helped hundreds of healthcare professionals through their FtP process.
Thanks to our Buddy Scheme and Advocacy Programme pilots, this help is now more formalised and refined. Although we get some limited funding, we always welcome more financial support in order to maintain these services at the highest levels.
If you or someone you know has been through a Fitness to Practice investigation you understand how crucial our work can be. So, if you are able to make a donation to enable us to help others, we would be very grateful.
Direct support
500+
Nurses and Midwives who have been through FtP
Advocacy programme
49
Registrants who have received legal assistance from NMCWatch
Buddy scheme
61
Registrants buddied so far
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From our blog:
The NMC Code: How professional tenets became weaponised and meaningless
This is a guest post from Deborah Hughes of The Midwives Haven. Background to The Code When I first registered in 1982 there was no Code. There were some rules that spelled out requirements for the Central Midwives Board, registration, post...
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Support services
We offer three support services.
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Buddy Scheme
A 1-2-1 service that aims to reduce the isolation and take the fear out of the FtP process.
Buddies are assigned from the same registry level and have concluded their own FtP cases.
Up to 10 hours to explore the impact and develop coping strategies.
Signposting for legal advice and other specific support areas, including financial.
Legal Advocacy
Following the success of our Advocacy Programme pilot, we have secured a long-term plan for assisting with fitness to practice cases.
This is in response to the many registrants who have no other options available or have found the alternatives have given them unsatisfactory results.
Peer Support Group
- Free online support to nurses and midwives via a closed Facebook page.
- Peer support to those suffering from the effects of the process.
- Linking to others in the same geographical area to give local support.
- Signposting to other organisations which can assist.
Our Advocacy works!
The messages of thanks we get show the effect our Advocacy Programme has – read more on the Feedback page.