My wife tells me she pays £40 per month for parking and £120 per year (soon to go up again) to the NMC for registration. My wife qualified in 1976 with the NHS as a 3year student. She has now reduced her hours to 3 days a week as she is thinking of retiring next year. The hospital where she works is not easy to get to by public transport. Twice in the last 8 years ,due to heavy snow, Tfl buses failed to run. I drove her in in my 4 wheel drive and other nurses walked several miles to provide a service. Shame the patients were not so anxious to attend hospital. A consultant pays the same for their parking as my wife. Shows how nurses loyalty is valued by the NHS. She never expected to have to pay to a registry in order to work when she was a student nurse. If she had known then she probably wouldn't have bothered to continue in her vocation.