Midwives
(asked on 3rd July 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the age profile was of midwives working in the NHS in England in each of the last five years.
NHS Digital publishes workforce statistics and the following table shows the age profile of midwives working in the National Health Service in England at 30 September 2012 to 2016. Data for March 2017 is also provided as this is the latest available.
The data is headcount because equality data relates to individuals.
NHS Hospital and Community Health Services (HCHS): Registered midwives by five year age band in NHS trusts and clinical commissioning groups in England as at 30 September each specified year and latest data as at 31 March 2017
| 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | March-2017 |
Age profile of midwives (headcount) |
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England | 24,765 | 25,006 | 25,333 | 25,418 | 25,466 | 26,081 |
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Under 25 | 1,000 | 1,136 | 1,159 | 1,156 | 1,149 | 1,387 |
25 to 29 | 2,218 | 2,421 | 2,677 | 2,949 | 3,205 | 3,400 |
30 to 34 | 2,742 | 2,825 | 2,892 | 2,909 | 3,007 | 3,166 |
35 to 39 | 2,740 | 2,756 | 2,880 | 3,046 | 3,147 | 3,251 |
40 to 44 | 3,544 | 3,287 | 3,159 | 3,059 | 3,004 | 2,989 |
45 to 49 | 5,049 | 4,826 | 4,425 | 3,995 | 3,622 | 3,518 |
50 to 54 | 4,258 | 4,451 | 4,611 | 4,664 | 4,585 | 4,534 |
55 to 59 | 2,260 | 2,341 | 2,519 | 2,558 | 2,656 | 2,693 |
60 to 64 | 818 | 807 | 835 | 893 | 916 | 971 |
65 and over | 136 | 156 | 176 | 189 | 175 | 172 |
Source: NHS Digital, Provisional NHS HCHS monthly workforce statistics