title: Why cough up £120 for the privilege of working?
abstract: Nurses and midwives will be shocked to read in this week's Nursing Standard that their Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) re-registration fees are set to soar, from £76 a year to £120. The 58 per cent increase is being justified on various grounds, principally the cost of clearing a backlog of fitness to practise cases that the NMC has allowed to build up.