The NMC said it had ‘made substantial improvements’ in 2025 ‘across culture, regulation, safeguarding, education and standards.’
These included the launch of a three-year culture transformation in March and measurable improvements in the Fitness to Practise process.
The NMC also set out a roadmap for improving education and standards, with plans to publish:
- A practice learning review in autumn 2026
- A new Code and Revalidation process in autumn 2027
- Standards for Advanced Practitioners by March 2028.
NMC chair Ron Barclay-Smith said: ‘This was the year that we started to build a new NMC so that we can become the strong and independent regulator that everyone wants to see.’ While NMC chief executive and registrar Paul Rees MBE added: I’m pleased to report that we’ve started building a more positiveand inclusive culture, which has helped us to ramp up performance.’
The chief executive conceded that ‘there’s still a way to go before everybody feels the benefit’, but he concluded: ‘I hope that the public, professionals and our partners are reassured by what we’ve achieved in less than one year’.
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