Nursing & Midwifery Council

What Nursing & Midwifery Council does

The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) is the statutory regulator for nurses, midwives, and nursing associates across the United Kingdom, established under the Nursing and Midwifery Order 2001 and operating as a registered charity in England and Wales (1091434) and Scotland (SC038362). It maintains oversight of more than 860,000 registered professionals across England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland, setting and enforcing professional standards through The Code, conducting fitness to practise adjudication, and approving pre-registration education programmes. The organisation is headquartered at 23 Portland Place, London, with regional fitness to practise hearing venues in Belfast, Cardiff, and Edinburgh, and employs 501–1,000 staff under CEO Andrea Sutcliffe.

NMC's core product portfolio comprises six regulatory pillars: The Code (professional standards framework), Revalidation (three-yearly fitness to practise verification), MyNMC (online registrant portal for registration management), Search the Register (public verification service), Employer Confirmations (real-time employer verification service), and Fitness to Practise (investigation and adjudication of concerns). These are supported by guidance libraries including the Caring with Confidence animation series, Public Support Service, Employer Link Service, Principles of Preceptorship, and joint professional guidance with the GMC on duty of candour. The underlying technology is a digital regulatory platform integrating online register search, self-service portals, fitness to practise case management, and virtual hearing capabilities; the architecture is a hub-and-spoke model with London headquarters and devolved hearing venues across the four UK nations.

NMC operates a direct-to-registrant go-to-market model with virtually all revenue derived from annual registration fees paid by the 860,000+ professionals on its register, supplemented by application and evaluation fees (non-refundable for overseas and EU applicants). Distribution is delivered through self-service digital channels (MyNMC, public register search) and direct enterprise channels (Employer Confirmations, fitness to practise hearings, Employer Link Service). As a statutory regulator accountable to Parliament through the Privy Council, NMC is not a commercial enterprise; it has no funding rounds, no parent company, no subsidiaries, and no M&A activity, with its operating model entirely defined by its statutory remit over the UK nursing and midwifery profession.

Name

Nursing & Midwifery Council

Legal name

The Nursing and Midwifery Council

Website

https://nmc.org.uk

Company type

Public

Founded year

2001

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

501–1,000 employees

Short description

The Nursing and Midwifery Council is the UK statutory regulator for 860,000+ nurses, midwives, and nursing associates, setting professional standards, maintaining the public register, and adjudicating fitness to practise across England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Healthcare Professional Regulation

NAICS

Business Associations (813910)

SIC

Services-Membership Organizations (8600)

akta.pro primary industry

Nursing & Allied Health Certification Prep (CNA, EMT/Paramedic, Radiology, Sonography, PT/OT) (EDANAIAB)

akta.pro secondary industries

Corporate Governance, Entity Management & Board Management (BPAEAPAL), Licensed CNA/HHA Staffing & Credentialed Placement (HSABAMAH)

Keywords

• Professional regulation
• Nursing registration
• Fitness to practise
• Healthcare workforce standards
• Revalidation services

Headquarters

HQ city

London

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices5 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Registration Fees: Primary revenue stream from annual fees paid by nurses, midwives, and nursing associates on the register. Most income comes from fees that the professionals on the register pay, providing value to registrants while funding regulatory operations.
2. Application Fees: Fees charged for processing registration applications, including evaluation fees for EU or overseas applications
3. Public Procurement: Procurement of goods and services including IT equipment, facilities management, research, legal and professional services through competitive tendering

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels6 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

The Nursing & Midwifery Council (NMC) is the statutory regulatory body for nurses, midwives, and nursing associates in the UK, established by the Nursing and Midwifery Order 2001. It maintains a register of more than 860,000 professionals, sets professional standards of education, training, conduct, and performance (codified in The Code), and investigates fitness to practise concerns to protect the public. The NMC also operates employer-facing services such as the Employer Link Service and Employer Confirmations to support workforce compliance.

Product overview

The Nursing and Midwifery Council operates as a regulatory platform for nursing and midwifery professionals across the UK, comprising a core suite of regulatory services and professional development resources. The primary offerings include The Code (professional standards), Revalidation (three-yearly fitness-to-practise verification), MyNMC (online registration management portal), Search the Register (public verification service), Employer Confirmations (employer verification tool), and Fitness to Practise (investigation and adjudication). Supporting these are Caring with Confidence: The Code in Action (video animation series on professional practice), Public Support Service (support for the public raising concerns), and Employer Link Service (employer advisory). The NMC also publishes guidance documents on social media, raising concerns/whistleblowing, professional duty of candour, and preceptorship principles. The architecture is a platform-based model where registrants, employers, and the public interact through separate but interconnected portals and services.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Professional Registration
• Revalidation
• MyNMC Portal
• Search the Register Free public search tool allowing anyone to confirm whether a nurse, midwife, or nursing associate is currently registered with the NMC and to view any fitness to practise annotations.
• Employer Confirmations Service used by employers (typically NHS trusts and private healthcare providers) to verify the registration status of prospective or current nursing and midwifery staff.
• Fitness to Practise Proceedings Investigation, adjudication, and hearing service that considers allegations that a registered professional's fitness to practise is impaired, with outcomes ranging from no action to striking off the register.
• Employer Link Service Advisory and liaison service through which NMC Employer Liaison Advisors work directly with healthcare employers on fitness to practise referrals, revalidation support, and raising concerns.
• Public Support Service Service that helps members of the public who have raised or are considering raising a concern about a nurse, midwife, or nursing associate, providing guidance through the fitness to practise process.
• The Code The Code (Professional standards of practice and behaviour for nurses, midwives and nursing associates) sets out the universal standards expected of every registrant on the NMC register.

Quantifiable outcome

• 860,000+ nurses, midwives and nursing associates on the register requiring ongoing regulatory oversight
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers1 record

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Partnerships

Six partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Care Quality Commission (CQC)coreOthersThe NMC works with the CQC, England's health and social care regulator. Employers are directed to contact CQC to raise concerns about health or social care providers. The CQC provides a helpline for staff to report concerns about their workplace.
• General Medical Council (GMC)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerJoint guidance developed with GMC on the professional duty of candour, providing shared professional responsibility guidance for healthcare professionals. Collaboration on fitness to practise matters affecting both medical and nursing professionals.
• Protect (Whistleblowing Charity)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerIndependent whistleblowing charity providing confidential advice to employees who witness wrongdoing. NMC guidance references Protect as a recommended source of advice for registrants considering raising concerns.
• Trade Unions (RCN, RCM, UNISON, CPHVA/Unite)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerProfessional bodies and trade unions referenced in raising concerns guidance as sources of confidential support and advice for registrants. RCN (0345 772 6100), RCM (0300 303 0444), UNISON (0800 0 857 857) are listed as resources.
• NHS EmployerscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerNMC guidance directs employers to NHS Employers resources on whistleblowing and raising concerns. NHS Employers provides guidance for employers in England on policies and procedures for reporting concerns about patient safety.
• Information Commissioner's Office (ICO)coreOthersNMC's information security and data protection practices operate under UK GDPR and Data Protection Act 2018 requirements. Information security incidents and data breaches are reported according to established protocols.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves1 record

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• General Medical Council: UK statutory regulator for doctors with an analogous model: maintains a public register, sets professional standards (Good Medical Practice), runs fitness-to-practise proceedings, and is funded by registrant fees. Closest direct peer given overlapping scope, joint guidance work with NMC, and shared regulatory architecture.
• Health and Care Professions Council: UK statutory regulator for 15 allied health professions (including paramedics, physiotherapists, radiographers). Operates a similar register, standards, revalidation, and fitness-to-practise model funded by registration fees; structurally the closest analogue within the UK regulatory family.
• General Dental Council: UK regulator for dentists and dental care professionals with the same statutory model as NMC—register, standards, fitness-to-practise, fee-funded. Comparable scale and operational structure, though smaller registrant base.
• General Pharmaceutical Council: UK regulator for pharmacists and pharmacy technicians with an analogous register, standards, revalidation, and fitness-to-practise model. Comparable in scale and structure, and shares the same fee-funded statutory model as NMC.
• General Optical Council: UK regulator for optometrists, dispensing opticians, and optical businesses. Same statutory framework, register, and fitness-to-practise architecture, though at a smaller scale than NMC.

Broad incumbents

• Care Quality Commission: UK regulator of health and adult social care providers (rather than individual professionals). Operates a broader scope across the entire provider landscape; NMC directs employers to CQC for provider-level concerns, indicating an established inter-regulator partnership.

Regional players

• Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia: Australian national regulator for nurses and midwives under AHPRA. Operates an almost identical mandate—register, standards, revalidation, fitness-to-practise—across Australia, making it the closest international analogue and a useful comparator for NMC's operating model.
• National Council of State Boards of Nursing (US): US organisation that coordinates the 50+ state boards of nursing that license nurses. Conceptually analogous to NMC (professional nursing regulation at a national level) but operates through a federated state-board model rather than a single national register.

Emerging players

• Royal College of Nursing: UK professional body and trade union for nursing staff (a membership/advocacy organisation rather than a statutory regulator). Comparable in serving the same nursing population but differentiated by being a member-led body that provides representation, education, and lobbying rather than regulation.
• Royal College of Midwives: UK professional body and trade union for midwives. Serves the same midwife population as NMC but as an advocacy and membership organisation, not a regulator; useful peer for understanding registrant-side dynamics.

Market position

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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• Facebookfacebook.com/nmcuk
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/the-nursing-and-midwifery-council/mycompany
• Instagraminstagram.com/nmcnews
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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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