Nursing and Midwifery Council

The complainant has requested NMC to disclose the nurse’s PINs for two named individuals. NMC initially applied section 40(2) of FOIA. However, during the Commissioner’s investigation NMC withdrew its reliance on this exemption, confirmed that it only holds the historic General Nursing Council (GNC) registration number for one of the named individuals and advised that it was willing to disclose this to the complainant. The Commissioner’s decision is that on the balance of probabilities NMC only holds the GNC registration number for the named individual and does not hold any further recorded information falling within the scope of the request. The Commissioner requires NMC to disclose the GNC Registration Number for the nurse it has traced.