Midwives: Older Workers

(asked on 5th January 2024) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many midwives working in the NHS were aged (a) 70 to 74, (b) 75 and (c) over the age of 75 years in each of the last five years.


Answered by
Maria Caulfield Portrait
Maria Caulfield
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
This question was answered on 15th January 2024

NHS England publishes data on the numbers of National Health Service staff by age bands. This data is drawn from the Electronic Staff Record (ESR), the human resources system for the NHS. The data is available at the following link:

https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/nhs-workforce-statistics

However, this data does not cover the age bands requested, and so the table below shows the headcount number of midwives working in NHS trusts and other core organisations in England between 70 and 74 years old, 75 years old and over the 75 years old in each of the last five years:

Year as of September

September 2019

September 2020

September 2021

September 2022

September 2023

Total number of midwives

26,062

26,840

26,418

26,075

27,065

Midwives aged 70 to 74

22

23

27

25

32

Midwives aged 75

0

2

0

2

3

Midwives aged over 75

0

0

1

1

3

Source: NHS England Hospital and Community Health Service Workforce Data

Note: The data includes staff employed by NHS trusts and other core NHS organisations. It excludes staff directly employed in general practitioner surgeries, local authorities, and other providers such as community interest companies and private providers.

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