The Nursing and Midwifery Order 2001

[F1 PART 5 U.K. European professional card: requirements and entitlements as to registration

Textual Amendments

F1 Sch. 2B inserted (18.11.2016) by The European Qualifications (Health and Social Care Professions) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/1030), regs. 1, 69 (with reg. 155)

Requirement to register: establishment cases U.K.

14.— (1) A person (“P”) who holds a valid European professional card for establishment in the United Kingdom is not entitled to practise as a nurse in the United Kingdom on the basis of establishment unless P complies with any requirements of, or under, this Order as to registration in the United Kingdom on that basis.

(2) For the purposes of registration, P is not required to resubmit any document or evidence which is contained in P's IMI file and which is still valid.

Entitlement to registration: provision of occasional nursing services U.K.

15.— (1) This paragraph applies to a person (“P”) who holds a valid European professional card, in relation to the provision of occasional nursing services in the United Kingdom, which—

(a) has been transmitted to the Council through the IMI by the competent authority of P's home State (pursuant to article 4c of the Directive); or

(b) has been issued by the Council under regulation 52 of the General Systems Regulations.

(2) Subject to sub-paragraphs (3) to (6)—

(a) P is entitled to be entered in the register and the Council must give effect to that entitlement; and

(b) if P is not entered in the register, P is treated as being so entered.

(3) If P's European professional card has been issued by the Council under regulation 52 of the General Systems Regulations, P's entitlement to be entered in the register ceases at the end of the period of 12 months beginning with the date on which the Council issued P's card.

(4) This sub-paragraph applies if—

(a) P's European professional card is, or becomes, invalid;

(b) P is subject to a disqualifying decision; or

(c) P becomes established as a nurse in the United Kingdom.

(5) If sub-paragraph (4) applies—

(a) the Council may refuse to enter P in, or may remove P from, the register; and

(b) sub-paragraph (2) ceases to apply.

(6) This paragraph is without prejudice to any other provision of this Order under which the name of a registered nurse may be removed from the register or under which the registration of a registered nurse may be suspended.]