Midwives: Training

(asked on 8th January 2019) - View Source
Questioner
David Drew Portrait
David Drew
(Labour (Co-op) - Stroud)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of student midwives who began training did not go on to graduate in each of the last five years for which figures are available.

Answered by
Stephen Hammond Portrait
Stephen Hammond
This question was answered on 16th January 2019

Midwifery courses typically last three years. Data from Health Education England (HEE) show the number of people who were known to have left midwifery courses in the first three years of study. This is known as observed expected attrition.

Proportion of midwifery entrants from 2010/11 to 2014/15 who were known to have left in the first three years of study

Year of entry

2010/11

2011/12

2012/13

2013/14

2014/15

Observed expected attrition rate

15.8%

14.2%

15.9%

12.1%

11.5%

Source: HEE Reducing Pre-Registration Attrition and Improving Retention (RePAIR) report, Table 3 Page 29.

https://www.hee.nhs.uk/our-work/reducing-pre-registration-attrition-improving-retention

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