Post-registration education and practice (PREP) was introduced in 1990 by the United Kingdom Central Council for Nursing and Midwifery and adopted by the current regulator, the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC), to 'ensure coherent and enforceable professional accountability' (Gately 1992). Since 1995, PREP has been a legal requirement for every practising nurse and midwife to maintain their registration. PREP requires confirmation of a minimum achievement of 450 practice hours over 3 years or completion of an approved return to practice programme. also, it requires we undertake and record our continuing professional development (CPD). However, there have been many challenges to policing such requirements, especially with over 670 000 nurses registered with the NMC. after a deal of research and consultation (NMC, 2014), PREP is being replaced by a system of revalidation. From January 2015, a number of pilot sites introduced a 6-month period to test the process, forms and guidance of revalidation, with a view to refining the model ahead of its roll at the end of 2015.
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