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<p>The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) is an independent body and responsible
for matters concerning the discharge of its statutory duties, including pursuing Fitness
to Practise (FtP) investigations against its registrants. Statistical information
about NMC FtP cases is not routinely collected or held centrally. However, the NMC
advises that as at 30 September 2014, it was dealing with 4271 FtP cases, of these
231 cases were aged over 24 months. This compares with 320 such cases as at 8 October
2013.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>On 13 October 2014, the Government laid a draft
Section 60 Order in Parliament to amend the Nursing and Midwifery Order 2001, the
governing legislative framework of the NMC. This Order contains a number of proposed
amendments that subject to approval will give the NMC powers that will help it to
carry out its FtP regulatory function more effectively and reduce the time it takes
the NMC to deal with FtP cases.<em> </em></p><p> </p>
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