Midwives: Retirement
(asked on 22nd February 2018) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many midwives left employment in the NHS in England on account of reaching retirement age in each of the last three years.
NHS Digital publishes workforce statistics and the following table shows the number of midwives who have left the National Health Service since October 2014 to 2017.
NHS Hospital and Community Health Services (HCHS): Leavers from the NHS that were midwives, those that had the recorded reason of retirement age, in NHS trusts and clinical commissioning groups in England, between 31 October 2014 and 31 October 2017, headcount
Year | October 2014 - October 2015 | October 2015 - October 2016 | October 2016 - October 2017 |
Midwives, retired leavers (Headcount) | 462 | 505 | 428 |
Source: NHS Digital, NHS HCHS workforce statistics