Midwives: Age

(asked on 22nd February 2018) - View Source
Questioner
Roger Godsiff Portrait
Roger Godsiff
(Labour - Birmingham, Hall Green)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the age profile is of midwives at the (a) most recent date for which figures are available and (b) the equivalent date in each year since 2010.

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 age profile of midwives in the National Health Service in England from October 2010 to 2017.

Registered midwives by five year age band in NHS trusts and clinical commissioning groups in England as at 31 October of each specified year, headcount.

October 2010

October 2011

October 2012

October 2013

October 2014

October 2015

October 2016

October 2017

Under 25

883

1,026

1,155

1,320

1,339

1,352

1,442

1,493

25 to 29

2,043

2,191

2,343

2,511

2,788

3,142

3,367

3,638

30 to 34

2,553

2,744

2,800

2,901

2,965

3,024

3,117

3,279

35 to 39

2,759

2,839

2,762

2,788

2,941

3,090

3,212

3,339

40 to 44

4,139

3,789

3,540

3,315

3,187

3,069

3,039

2,999

45 to 49

5,119

5,119

5,051

4,801

4,404

3,975

3,609

3,335

50 to 54

3,818

4,094

4,267

4,452

4,629

4,661

4,562

4,453

55 to 59

2,022

2,087

2,281

2,377

2,518

2,567

2,665

2,745

60 to 64

803

823

822

816

841

914

911

998

65 and over

144

127

139

156

180

189

175

164

Total Headcount

24,283

24,839

25,160

25,437

25,792

25,983

26,099

26,443

Source: NHS Digital, Provisional NHS Hospital and Community Health Service monthly workforce statistics

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