Midwives
(asked on 7th November 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many midwifery graduates there were in each year since 2010-11.
This question was answered on 15th November 2017
The following table shows the number of midwives who graduated in England in each academic year, for the period 2010-11 to 2015-16. Data on the number of graduates in 2016-17 will be available from January 2018.
Academic Year | 2010-2011 | 2011-2012 | 2012-2013 | 2013-2014 | 2014-2015 | 2015-2016 |
Midwifery graduates | 1,412 | 1,366 | 1,486 | 1,570 | 1,810 | 1,933 |
Source: Higher Education Statistics Agency Student Record
There were 6,802 midwives in training as at 31 March 2017.