title: Finally something to thank Lansley for.
abstract: Well done Andrew Lansley. Now there's a sentence you don't get to say very often. But the health secretary's intervention in the sorry saga of the Nursing and Midwifery Council's (NMC) bungling attempts to balance its books by picking nurses' pockets is welcome. Particularly welcome is his statement that 'a fee increase for registrants is difficult to justify at a time of pay restraint'. It certainly is, especially an increase of nearly 60 per cent.