General Nursing Council

General Nursing Councils for England & Wales, Scotland, and Ireland (then one country and part of the United Kingdom) were established by three country specific Nurses Registration Acts 1919. Each General Nursing Council (GNC) was responsible for deciding the rules for: admission to the register; for the conditions of training of nurses; for qualifying examinations, for discipline, and the uniform of badge of nurses on the register.

The composition of the first GNCs were to include: 2 appointees of the Privy Council (with no associations to medicine or nursing), 2 appointees of the Board of Education, 5 appointees of the Ministry of Health and 16 nurses to be appointed by the Minister of Health. The Acts stated that the first Councils' term should be no longer than three years and the subsequent 16 nurses' places were to be elected by nurses on the register.

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