Under fire Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) cannot ‘be the police of nurses’ and must learn to live with some risk in healthcare, says Anthony Omo, who is on secondment from the General Medical Council to advise the nursing regulator on reducing caseload and to share good practice. He told NMC members that ‘healthcare is dangerous, and so there is a level of risk you need to live with’. Six nurses have reportedly died by suicide in a year while under fitness to practise investigation by the NMC