It’s enough of a burden for nurses to have to pay registration fees. I don’t (nor am I likely to ever, I suspect) see the NMC advocating for an increase in nurses’ pay in order for us to afford the periodic hike in registration fees that we have to suffer.
Because registration fees are now annual it seems to me to make sense for an employer to pay a nurse’s registration fee for as long as that nurse is employed as a nurse. I actually don’t see a problem for the nurse if they leave their employment before the next payment is due, to pay that year’s fee back to their former employer; and the new employer will pay that same fee. (Not unless, of course, there are some dishonest nurses who won’t refund their former employer: so how about cancelling their registration if the fee is not repaid after a fixed period of time?)
How many nurses like me are fed up with being continually ripped-off and exploited by firstly the registration authority and secondly by their employer (mind you, being patronised by the Department of Health doesn’t help).
It’s time nurses stood up to be counted and stopped allowing ourselves to be exploited. A health visitor – a very experienced nurse – once told me that there is one thing nurses are good at, and that’s moaning.
