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 NHS employment because they had reached retirement age in each year since 2011-12.


Answered by
Steve Barclay Portrait
Steve Barclay
Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
This question was answered on 1st March 2018

NHS Digital publishes workforce statistics and the following table shows the number of midwives who have left the National Health Service since October 2011/12 to 2016/17.

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 commission groups in England, between 31 October 2011 and 31 October 2017, headcount.

Year

October 2011 - October 2012

October 2012 - October 2013

October 2013 - October 2014

October 2014 - October 2015

October 2015 - October 2016

October 2016 - October 2017

Midwives, retired leavers (Headcount)

361

428

421

462

505

428

Source: NHS Digital, NHS HCHS workforce statistics.

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