NHS: Midwives

(asked on 17th November 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many full time equivalent NHS midwives there were in England in each year from 2009.


Answered by
Helen Whately Portrait
Helen Whately
Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 3rd December 2020

NHS Digital publishes Hospital and Community Health Services (HCHS) workforce statistics. These include staff working in hospital trusts and clinical commissioning groups (CCGs), but not staff working in primary care, general practice surgeries, local authorities or other providers.

The following table below shows the number of full-time equivalent (FTE) HCHS midwives per 100,000 of the population as at September each year since 2009, along with the latest data, July 2020.

England population estimate

HCHS midwives FTE

HCHS midwives per 100,000 of population

September 2009

52,196,381

18,959

36.3

September 2010

52,642,452

19,487

37.0

September 2011

53,107,169

19,878

37.4

September 2012

53,493,729

20,214

37.8

September 2013

53,865,817

20,537

38.1

September 2014

54,316,618

20,838

38.4

September 2015

54,786,327

20,934

38.2

September 2016

55,268,067

21,038

38.1

September 2017

55,619,430

21,206

38.1

September 2018

55,977,178

21,323

38.1

September 2019

56,286,961

21,636

38.4

July 2020

56,678,000

22,049

38.9


Source: NHS Digital, National Health Service HCHS workforce statistics

Note:

Midwife to population ratios are derived from population estimates made by the Office for National Statistics (ONS). The figure given for 2020 is a 2018-based national population projection produced by ONS.

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