Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 5 February 2015 to Question 222919, how many (a) doctors, (b) nurses, (c) social workers and (d) psychiatrists with specialist skills in elderly care have retired since 2005.

The Department does not hold information on the number of social workers with specialist skills in elderly care who have retired since 2005. Neither does the Department hold information on the number of nurses specialising in elderly care as these cannot be identified separately in the National Health Service workforce statistics published by the Health and Social Care Information Centre.

The table attached shows the number of doctors in the specialties of geriatric medicine and old age psychiatry who have retired between 2008-09 and 2013-14.