Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information his Department holds on the reasons that midwives have provided for leaving NHS employment in each of the last five years for which information is available.
NHS Digital publishes Hospital and Community Health Services (HCHS) workforce statistics for England. These include staff working in hospital trusts and clinical commissioning groups, but not staff working in primary care, local authorities or other providers.
The following table shows the reasons recorded for midwives leaving the National Health Service in England, as at 1 April in each year between 2013-2018 and the first two quarters of 2018-19, headcount:
Reason for Leaving | 2013-14 | 2014-15 | 2015-16 | 2016-17 | 2017-18 | 2018-19 First two quarters |
Total | 2,912 | 2,996 | 2,956 | 2,858 | 2,782 | 1,497 |
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Dismissal | 77 | 88 | 69 | 79 | 69 | 38 |
End of Fixed Term Contract | 43 | 34 | 52 | 53 | 46 | 13 |
Flexi Retirement | 141 | 143 | 150 | 195 | 165 | 86 |
Mutually Agreed Resignation - Local Scheme with Repayment | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
Mutually Agreed Resignation - Local Scheme without Repayment | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Mutually Agreed Resignation - National Scheme with Repayment | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Others | 370 | 346 | 127 | 28 | 26 | 13 |
Redundancy - Compulsory | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Redundancy - Voluntary | 3 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 0 |
Retirement - Ill Health | 30 | 29 | 31 | 39 | 29 | 8 |
Retirement Age | 523 | 586 | 603 | 578 | 592 | 297 |
Voluntary Early Retirement - no Actuarial Reduction | 45 | 41 | 63 | 56 | 43 | 22 |
Voluntary Early Retirement - with Actuarial Reduction | 28 | 36 | 27 | 31 | 34 | 12 |
Voluntary Resignation - Adult Dependants | 13 | 8 | 12 | 11 | 13 | 4 |
Voluntary Resignation - Better Reward Package | 25 | 39 | 19 | 16 | 42 | 12 |
Voluntary Resignation - Child Dependants | 58 | 49 | 45 | 46 | 33 | 36 |
Voluntary Resignation - Health | 44 | 34 | 54 | 75 | 66 | 43 |
Voluntary Resignation - Incompatible Working Relationships | 14 | 13 | 16 | 12 | 15 | 13 |
Voluntary Resignation - Lack of Opportunities | 22 | 25 | 14 | 21 | 20 | 11 |
Voluntary Resignation - Other/Not Known | 524 | 500 | 557 | 505 | 442 | 237 |
Voluntary Resignation - Promotion | 86 | 113 | 102 | 110 | 120 | 69 |
Voluntary Resignation - Relocation | 563 | 560 | 598 | 605 | 628 | 355 |
Voluntary Resignation - To undertake further education or training | 83 | 71 | 71 | 44 | 46 | 42 |
Voluntary Resignation - Work Life Balance | 225 | 287 | 344 | 355 | 353 | 190 |
NHS Improvement is leading a direct support programme to work with trusts with the highest attrition rates to identify improvements and improve retention to close the supply gap.