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.
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.