Plenty of scare stories surrounded the NMC’s release of its new revalidation requirements, with anything from excessive practice hours and patient feedback making many nurses uneasy about their future registration. Here, Alex Munro takes a look at the facts...

As a nurse or midwife, you will no doubt be aware of the impending changes to the way that you will have to renew your professional registration with the NMC. So what are the changes and what will they mean for you?