NMC Updates the English Language Test Score

Nursing Midwifery Council (NMC) UK has approved the recommendations to accept a score of 6.5 in the writing module of IELTS after the serious engagement and particular consultation with the stakeholders today. The council has taken extreme caution and calculated steps by taking valuable feedback and reviews from the Nurses and Midwives serving in the UK who basically originate from the non-native English speaking countries.

Overseas nurses required to score level 7 in all IELTS modules to fulfill the overseas nurses registration requirement of the NMC UK, which was really hard to score, even after having a very high understanding on the language.

The NMC UK will be closely monitoring the changes for quite sometime in the future and this result would also create changes in the NMC UK’s international policy and statutory guidance. The aforesaid change would come in to effect from 5th December 2018. IELTS results under two years old that meet the new requirements will be considered from 5th December 2018. Successful applicants will still have to achieve a score of 7 in the reading, speaking and listening aspects of the exam with writing 6.5, resulting in an overall result of 7. The highest mark is a 9. NMC also confirmed applicants can still use two IELTS score sheets within the last six months to meet the above requirement. NMC has plans to consider the same on  Occupational English Test(OET).

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