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 training places for midwifery were (a) commissioned and (b) filled in each of the last five years.
The following table shows the total number of planned training places for student mental health (MH) and learning disability (LD) nurses, midwives and district nurses who began training in each year in England in each of the last five complete years.
The year period 2016/17 has planned training place numbers available only.
Year | 2011/12 | 2012/13 | 2013/14 | 2014/15 | 2015/16 | 2016/17 | |||||
| Planned | Actual | Planned | Actual | Planned | Actual | Planned | Actual | Planned | Actual | Planned |
Student MH Nurse | 3,265 | 3,149 | 3,132 | 3,025 | 2,908 | 3,079 | 2,908 | 3,101 | 3,243 | 3,321 | 3,343 |
Student LD Nurse | 614 | 574 | 612 | 618 | 876 | 603 | 653 | 639 | 664 | 607 | 641 |
Student Midwife | 2,507 | 2,484 | 2,578 | 2,580 | 2,588 | 2,540 | 2,563 | 2,535 | 2,605 | 2,580 | 2,605 |
Student District Nurse | 255 | 177 | 257 | 186 | 402 | 402 | 431 | 381 | 502 | 443 | 505 |
Source: multi professional education and training budget monitoring returns