Health Professions: Training

(asked on 15th October 2015) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many training places were commissioned in England for new entrants to become (a) nurses and (b) midwives in each year between 2010 and 2015.


Answered by
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Ben Gummer
This question was answered on 20th October 2015

The following table shows the number of pre-registration nursing and midwifery places (degree and diploma courses) that were commissioned by year, for the period 2010/11 to 2015/16.



2010/11

2011/12

2012/13

2013/14

2014/15

2015/16

Nursing

20,327

18,069

17,546

18,056

19,206

20,033

Midwifery

2,493

2,507

2,578

2,588

2,563

2,605


Source: multi professional education and training budget monitoring returns


The latest planned training commissions for 2015/16 were published in December 2014 by Health Education England as part of their Workforce Plan for England.

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