Health Professions: Training
(asked on 14th December 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many students entered training to become a (a) nurse, (b) midwife and (c) GP in England in each of the last five years.
The table below indicates the number of students who entered training in the last five academic years to become a nurse or midwife:
Course | 2012/13 | 2013/14 | 2014/15 | 2015/16 | 2016/17 |
Nursing | 17,115 | 17,568 | 19,147 | 19,951 | 20,888 |
Midwifery | 2,580 | 2,540 | 2,535 | 2,580 | 2,602 |
Source:
Information prior to 2013 was sourced using the Departmental Financial Information Management System. Data collected after 2013 is sourced using the Health Education England Education Commissioning reports.
The table below indicates the number of students who entered training in the last five calendar years to become a general practitioner:
Course | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 |
GP | 2,693 | 2,767 | 2,671 | 2,769 | 3,019 | 3,157 |
Source:
Health Education England