Midwives: Training
(asked on 25th October 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many student midwives (a) began and (b) successfully completed their training in England in each of the last five years.
The following table shows the total number of student midwives who began training in each year in England in each of the last five complete years.
Year | 2011/12 | 2012/13 | 2013/14 | 2014/15 | 2015/16 |
Student Midwives | 2,484 | 2,580 | 2,540 | 2,535 | 2,580 |
Source: multi professional education and training budget monitoring returns.
The Department of Health and Health Education England do not hold any data on completion of training rates and if midwives went on to be employed in the National Health Service.