Midwives: Training
(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 training places for midwifery were (a) commissioned and (b) filled in each of the last five years.
The following table shows the number of commissioned midwifery training places in England by year, for the period 2012-13 to 2016-17 and the actual take up of those places.
Course | 2012/13 | 2013/14 | 2014/15 | 2015/16 | 2016/17 |
Midwifery (Commissioned) | 2,578 | 2,588 | 2,899 | 2,605 | 2,605 |
Midwifery (filled) | 2,580 | 2,540 | 2,535 | 2,580 | 2,602 |
Source: Health Education England since 2013
Financial Information Management System prior to 2013
The reforms for healthcare education funding from August 2017 will mean students will move onto the student loans system; giving universities the flexibility to provide additional places, based on local need and National Health Service clinical capacity. Health Education England will continue to fund the required number of clinical placements to meet the longer-term NHS workforce needs.