Culture Transformation Plan

Culture transformation is the first pillar of the NMC’s wider corporate plan for 2025-2026, which aims to win back trust and confidence in our ability to protect the public through the effective regulation of nurses, midwives and nursing associates. The work ahead won't be easy, however, the culture plan will be pivotal to successfully delivering our wider priorities.

Since joining the NMC in January, Paul Rees MBE, our Interim Chief Executive and Registrar, has prioritised enabling change that will: 

• Empower managers to be better leaders   
• Drive higher morale, better performance and improved outcomes  
• Help the NMC to improve the timeliness of our fitness to practise casework 
• Enable the NMC to better regulate and support nursing and midwifery professionals to deliver good care 
• Improve employee experience, with colleagues enjoying working in an inclusive organisation where success is celebrated, poor performance is rooted out, and people can be themselves at work
   

Following extensive engagement with hundreds of NMC staff, Paul and the NMC culture transformation team have set out a plan based on quarterly activity across six pillars: 

• Strong and effective leadership  
• Values-based decision-making  
• Embedding equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) 
• Ensuring psychological safety  
• Enjoying work, and 
• Regulatory fairness