Jim Cunningham – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jim Cunningham on 2015-12-09.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate his Department has made of the total number of student nurses in England and Wales in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement.
Ben Gummer
The following table shows the total number of student nurses in England, in training places as at 31 March in each year, for the period 2010/11 to 2014/15. The Department and Health Education England do not hold data for students undertaking their training in Wales.
|
Year |
2010/11 |
2011/12 |
2012/13 |
2013/14 |
2014/15 |
|
Nurses |
53,101 |
51,824 |
52,914 |
48,484 |
50,139 |
Source: multi professional education and training budget monitoring returns
In 2015 the National Health Service has seen record numbers of nurses and midwives in post. The latest data from the Health and Social Care Information Centre’s Hospital and Community Health Services monthly workforce statistics, which does not include nurses working in general practice, shows a total of 303,600 full time equivalent nurses and midwives, in post in England in August 2015.
