The Council for Healthcare Regulatory Excellence has published an interim report on the United Kingdom Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) as part of a strategic review of the regulator. The report includes 16 recommendations "in relation to organisational purpose, structure, governance and leadership, including the management of operations by the executive of the NMC and the oversight of its Council", with a wider range of issues to be covered in the full strategic review, which is to be published in June 2012.
Recommendations include the appointment of Council member with a financial qualification, to assist in the effective oversight of finances, and an improvement in the quality of management information. Additional recommendations relate to business information, decision-making structures and governance, as well as identifying the qualities that a future Chief Executive and Chair should have.
