Health Professions: Training
(asked on 23rd January 2019) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, 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 number of students who started nursing and midwifery courses over recent years are shown in the following table.
Number of entrants to nursing and midwifery courses in England from 2013/14 to 2017/18
Year of entry | 2013/14 | 2014/15 | 2015/16 | 2016/17 | 2017/18 |
Number of nursing entrants | 17,568 | 19,147 | 19,949 | 20,888 | 19,295 |
Number of midwifery entrants | 2,540 | 2,535 | 2,591 | 2,602 | 2,692 |
Source: Health Education England, Education Commissioning dataset
The number of trainee doctors that were accepted onto general practitioner (GP) training programmes in England is shown in the following table.
Total number of trainee doctors accepted onto general practice training programmes in England
Entry year | 2014/15 | 2015/16 | 2016/17 | 2017/18 | 2018/19 |
Acceptances to GP training | 2,671 | 2,769 | 3,019 | 3,157 | 3,473 |
Source: General Practice National Recruitment Office
Note:
A small minority of those accepted may not have enrolled onto their programme.