Nurses Registration Act 1919

The Nurses Registration Act 1919 (9 & 10 Geo. 5. c. 94) was an Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom.

Nurses Registration Act 1919
Act of Parliament
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Long titleAn Act to provide for the Registration of Nurses for the Sick.
Citation9 & 10 Geo. 5. c. 94
Dates
Royal assent23 December 1919
Other legislation
Relates to
  • Nurses Registration (Scotland) Act 1919
  • Nurses Registration (Ireland) Act 1919

It set up the General Nursing Council, and was the culmination of a long campaign led by Ethel Gordon Fenwick to establish a register of nurses.

There was a general register for all those trained in general nursing, and supplementary registers for mental nursing, mental deficiency nursing, fever nursing, paediatric nursing, and for male nurses[1] There was no mechanism for a nurse to transfer from one part of the register to another without re-qualifying.

Nurses were to be admitted to the register if they had, for three years before 1 November 1919, been bona fide engaged in practice and had adequate knowledge and experience of the nursing of the sick.[2]

See also

References
  1. "The Nurses Registration Act 1919". Policy Navigator. Health Foundation. Retrieved 6 June 2017.
  2. Abel-Smith, Brian (1960). A History of the Nursing Profession. London: Heinemann. p. 100.
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