Nurses: Apprentices

(asked on 13th June 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate he has made of the number of registered nurse apprentices which started in (a) 2017 and (b) 2018.


Answered by
Anne Milton Portrait
Anne Milton
This question was answered on 18th June 2018

There have been 40,650 apprenticeship starts in Health, Public Services and Care, reported to date, in the first half of the 2017 to 2018 academic year (August 2017 to January 2018) in England: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/fe-data-library-apprenticeships.

We want to increase the number of nursing apprenticeships and now have a complete apprentice pathway from entry level to postgraduate advanced clinical practice in nursing. This will support people from all backgrounds to enter a nursing career in the National Health Service.

The registered nurse (degree) apprenticeship standard was approved for delivery on 9 May 2017. To date, there have been 20 starts on the registered nurse (degree) apprenticeship in the 2017 to 2018 academic year (August 2017 to January 2018) in England.

We have also created a new programme for nursing associate apprentices to broaden the routes into the profession. 5,000 starts are planned in 2018, with a further 7,500 in 2019.

We are working closely with employers, Health Education England and ministers in the Department of Health to make sure the NHS is fully supported to recruit apprentices, both in nursing and in a range of other occupations.

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