Learning Disability and Mental Health Services: Nurses

(asked on 25th November 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many (a) mental health nurses and (b) learning disability nurses are registered with the Nursing and Midwifery Council; and how many of those nurses were newly registered in the years (i) 2018, (ii) 2019, (iii) 2020 and 2021.


Answered by
Edward Argar Portrait
Edward Argar
Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
This question was answered on 2nd December 2021

The following table shows the number of mental health and learning disability nurses registered with the Nursing and Midwifery Council in the 12 months to September of each year.

Year

Mental health nurses

Learning disability nurses

September 2018

88,980

17,311

September 2019

89,831

17,383

September 2020

91,215

17,494

September 2021

92,107

17,288

Source: Nursing and Midwifery Council

Note:

These figures show the total number of registered mental health and learning disability nurses at the end of each year. This includes newly registered nurses in each field, those returning to practice less those who have left. It should also be noted that some professionals are registered in more than one field and therefore some of these nurses may also be registered adult or children’s nurses.

The following table shows the number of initial registrations in the field of practice of mental health and learning disabilities by the Nursing and Midwifery Council in the 12 months to September of each year.

Year

Mental health

Learning disabilities

September 2018

3,396

627

September 2019

3,695

640

September 2020

3,827

670

September 2021

3,694

451

Total

14,612

2,388

Source: Nursing and Midwifery Council

Notes:

The data on numbers of initial registrations in the requested fields of practice does not include those who add either field of practice as a subsequent registration. If they have initially registered in another field such as adult or children’s services, it will not be recorded in this data will not demonstrate this. However, the total numbers of people in all these fields are shown in the total column.

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