Nurses: Registration

(asked on 6th January 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many nurses are on the temporary register created by the Nursing and Midwifery Council; and how many of those nurses have been employed to date.


Answered by
Helen Whately Portrait
Helen Whately
Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 21st January 2021

As of 4 January 2021, there are 11,983 nurses on the Nursing and Midwifery Council’s COVID-19 emergency register. Data on the numbers of those on the temporary register who are employed is not collected centrally.

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