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<p>The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) is the independent regulator of nurses
and midwives in the United Kingdom. The NMC is responsible for delivery of its statutory
functions including maintaining a register of all nurses and midwives eligible to
work in the UK and for pursuing fitness to practise investigations against its registrants
in the interests of public protection.</p><p> </p><p>On each of the NMC and General
Medical Council (GMC) websites there is a facility to search the professional registers
and to check the registration status of a registrant. <del class="ministerial">Where
an NMC registrant has been struck-off the register, their record is removed from the
register and they would not be found on a register search. However, the NMC does publish
information about fitness to practise (FtP) allegations, hearings, outcomes and sanctions
elsewhere on its website in accordance with its FtP publication and disclosure policy.
Where a GMC registrant is erased from the medical register, their record remains and
could be found in a register search with details of the FtP sanction. </del><ins class="ministerial">Both
of these regulators maintain public records about individuals who have been struck
off or erased from their professional registers and these records are available through
their respective websites.</ins></p><p>It is a matter for the regulators themselves
to determine how they manage their publication and disclosure policy in relation to
fitness to practice, within the legislative frameworks in which they operate.</p>
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