The Progress of State Registration in Great Britain.

Kai Tiaki : the journal of the nurses of New Zealand, Volume II, Issue 2, 1 April 1909, Page 43

The Progress of State Registration in Great Britain.

The Nurses' Registration Bill, promoted by the Society for the State Registration of Trained Nurses, was introduced into the House of Commons by Mr. R. C. Munro-Fer-guson, on Tuesday, 2nd March. The Bill is identical with that so ably piloted through the House of Lords last session by I v ord Ampthill, and which had the full support of the Government and of the Marquess of I v ansdowne, leader of the Opposition, on the third reading. We hear that : " Petitions m support of the Bill are being forwarded to members of Parliament." From the British Journal of Nursing.

We shall await with deep interest the news of the progress of this Bill, and sympathise with its promoters in their hard fight against opposition. Quite a new difficulty has been placed in their way now that success is almost in view, by a section of the medical and nursing world in Scotland, which advocates a separate Bill for Scottish nurses, eliminating the great principle of a central and uniform qualifying examination. Let us hope that this opposition which has been presented at the last moment may be overcome, and may not delay the long-desired consummation.