Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people living in England hold a qualification as a learning disability nurse.
The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) is the independent professional regulator for nurses and midwives in the United Kingdom and is responsible for nurse and midwifery registration. According to the NMC’s latest registration data reports, as at 30 September 2020, there were 13,704 nurses resident in England registered in the field of practice ‘learning disability nurses’.
Although someone is registered with a learning disability nurse qualification, this does not necessarily mean they are actively practicing in that field at any given point in time. Nurses can also be registered in two or more fields of practice.