Nurses: Recruitment

(asked on 29th March 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress his Department has made on recruiting 50,000 nurses.


Answered by
Edward Argar Portrait
Edward Argar
Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
This question was answered on 7th April 2022

The latest available date shows that in January 2022, there are approximately 29,100 more nurses compared to September 2019. A programme has been established to improve retention and support return to practice, invest in and diversify the training pipeline and ethically recruit internationally.

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