Q. Midwives: Termination of Employment

Midwives: Termination of Employment

(asked on 10th January 2019) - View Source

Questioner

Gareth Snell
(Labour (Co-op) - Stoke-on-Trent Central)

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.

Answered by

Stephen Hammond

This question was answered on 17th January 2019

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
Of which
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.

Midwives: Termination of Employment

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