Midwives: Training

(asked on 3rd December 2015) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many student midwives there were in England in each of the last five years.


Answered by
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Ben Gummer
This question was answered on 10th December 2015

The following table shows the total number of student midwives in training in England as at the end of each financial year for the period 2010/11 to 2014/15.


Year

2010/11

2011/12

2012/13

2013/14

2014/15

Midwives

5,644

5,955

6,315

6,413

6,662

Source: multi professional education and training budget monitoring returns.

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