The NMC Council has voted to increase the regulator's annual registration fee to £120.
The NMC Council has voted to increase the regulator's annual registration fee to £120.
The £20 fee increase will begin in March 2015. The council has said that they will review the fee level every year.
The NMC has released a statement asserting that 70 per cent of its members do not claim tax relief on their registration fees, which could save nurses and midwives up to £177 a year.
Other nursing organisations have criticised the decision. Unite staged a protest against the fee rise outside the NMC's headquarters. The RCN's head of policy Howard Catton said: 'We urge the NMC to consider the unintended consequences that raising the registration fee may have.'