Nurses
(asked on 16th December 2014) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many registered nurses were enlisted on the General Medical Council register in each of the years from 2010 to 2014.
Nurses are not required to register with the General Medical Council (GMC), but are required to register with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) in order to practise as a nurse in the United Kingdom. Both the GMC and the NMC are independent bodies and are responsible for ensuring that their own registers are appropriately maintained.
The NMC does not collect information on dual registration. The following data, obtained from the NMC, shows the number of entries on the NMC register on 31 March each year since 2010:
Date | Nurse | Midwife | Nurse & SCPHN1 | Nurse and Midwife | Nurse, Midwife & SCPHN | Midwife & SCPHN | SCPHN | Total |
31 March 2010 | 600,794 | 26,328 | 25,375 | 12,602 | 667 | 208 | 8 | 665,982 |
31 March 2011 | 604,223 | 26,328 | 25,643 | 11,813 | 612 | 249 | 0 | 668,868 |
31 March 2012 | 606,410 | 28,501 | 25,467 | 11,424 | 539 | 279 | 0 | 672,620 |
31 March 2013 | 608,107 | 29,562 | 26,084 | 10,609 | 533 | 377 | 3 | 675,275 |
31 March 2014 | 612,047 | 30,535 | 26,961 | 10,256 | 514 | 556 | 10 | 680,879 |
Notes:
1. Specialist Community Public Health Nursing (SCPHN)