NMC chief executive resigns
Posted: 13 January 2012 by Rob Dabrowski
The NMC’s chief executive and registrar has resigned from his post with immediate effect.
It has been announced that Professor Dickon Weir-Hughes has left after suffering ill health.
The NMC chair, Professor Tony Hazell, has released a statement confirming the news.
It states: ‘After a period of sick leave, Professor Dickon Weir-Hughes, has decided to resign from his position as chief executive and registrar of the Nursing and Midwifery Council and leave with immediate effect.
‘We would like to express our thanks for his contribution to the NMC and wish him well for the future.’
Dickon joined the nursing watchdog in November 2009 after being executive director of nursing at Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust, and a professor of nursing at London South Bank University.
Previously to this he had been chief nurse at the Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust in London.
Jackie Smith, the NMC's director of fitness for practice, will continue as acting chief executive and registrar but it is believed the post will be filled on a more permanent basis in the future.
