NMC's consultation on pre-registration nursing education.

This consultation seeks your views on new standards for pre-registration nursing education programmes. These standards set out what nursing students must demonstrate to be fit for practice at the point of registration.

The standards for pre-registration nursing education will be published in the autumn of 2010. They will replace the existing Standards of proficiency for pre-registration nursing education. New education programmes, designed to meet the new standards, will be introduced from September 2011.

More information from the NMC website.

The consultation
This consultation gives us the opportunity to receive your feedback on the proposed new standards. We want to know:

• how effective you think they will be in enabling programme providers to develop nursing education programmes
• how they can be enhanced or improved
• whether you can see any barriers to their successful introduction
• whether they are clear and easy to use
• whether we should include anything else and
• whether they support and promote equality and diversity.