Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government how many nurses joined the Nursing and Midwife Council Register from countries graded by the World Health Organisation as having fewer nurses than the global median in the most recent year for which figures are available

The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) is the independent regulator of nurses, midwives, and nursing associates in the United Kingdom. The following table shows the number of nurses, midwives, and nursing associates joining the NMC’s register from each country with fewer nursing and midwifery personnel per 10,000 people than the global median in the year ending 31 March 2022.

Bahrain 4

Bangladesh 1

Barbados 18

Belize 17

Cameroon 17

China 6

Colombia 3

Egypt 13

Eswatini 9

Ethiopia 1

Gambia 12

India 9,769

Iran 19

Iraq 1

Jamaica 115

Jordan 12

Kenya 461

Lebanon 20

Lesotho 18

Malawi 7

Malaysia 20

Namibia 11

Nepal 210

Niger 1

Nigeria 3,010

Pakistan 112

Saint Lucia 13

Sri Lanka 14

Tanzania 1

Tunisia 1

Turkey 2

Uganda 30

Zambia 57

Zimbabwe 913

Notes:

1. The World Health Organization publishes a measure of the number of nurses per 10,000 population. The median for their measure, unweighted by countries population is 35.07 nursing and midwifery personnel per 10,000 population.

2. Countries below the median level of nursing and midwifery personnel per 10,000 population where there were no joiners to the NMC register are excluded.