Midwives: Training
(asked on 8th January 2019) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many student midwives began their training in each of the last five years.
This question was answered on 16th January 2019
The number of students who started midwifery courses over recent years are shown in the following table.
Number of entrants to midwifery courses in England from 2013/14 to 2017/18
Year of entry | 2013/14 | 2014/15 | 2015/16 | 2016/17 | 2017/18 |
Number of midwifery entrants | 2,540 | 2,535 | 2,591 | 2,602 | 2,692 |
Source: Health Education England, Education Commissioning (EdCom) dataset