Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many additional nurses have been delivered in the 2019 Parliament to date.

As of August 2022, there were 330,357 full time equivalent nurses in hospital and community health service and general practice settings in England. This is an increase of 29,453 than the September 2019 baseline for the target of achieving 50,000 additional nurses and an increase of 24,579 since December 2019.

We published a delivery update on the 50,000 nurses target on 7 March 2022, providing details on progress and the definition, scope and timing of the target, which is available at the following link: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/50000-nurses-programme-delivery-update/50000-nurses-programme-delivery-update