Nurses Registration Act 1919
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| Act of Parliament | |
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| Long title | An Act to provide for the Registration of Nurses for the Sick. |
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| Citation | 9 & 10 Geo. 5. c. 94 |
| Territorial extent | England and Wales[b] |
| Dates | |
| Royal assent | 23 December 1919 |
| Commencement | 23 December 1919[c] |
| Repealed | 21 April 1957 |
| Other legislation | |
| Amended by | |
| Repealed by | Nurses Act 1957 |
| Relates to | |
Status: Repealed | |
| Text of statute as originally enacted | |
The Nurses Registration Act 1919 (9 & 10 Geo. 5. c. 94) was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
The act was the culmination of a long campaign led by Ethel Gordon Fenwick to establish a register of nurses.
The Minister for Health, Christopher Addison successfully introduced the act, establishing for the first time a register of nurses under the auspices of the General Nursing Council.[1]
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[2] 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.[3]
The whole act was repealed by section 34(1) of, and the fifth schedule to, the Nurses Act 1957 (5 & 6 Eliz. 2. c. 15), which came into force on 21 April 1957.[4]
