Midwives: Training
(asked on 14th October 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 (a) student midwives there were, (b) people graduated from pre-registration midwifery training and (c) training places for pre-registration midwifery students were (i) made available and (ii) filled in each of the last three academic years.
Data from the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) in the following table. shows the number of students accepted onto midwifery courses over the last three full academic years.
Midwifery student acceptances
Midwifery | |||
Academic year | 2016-17 | 2017-18 | 2018-19 |
Number of acceptances | 2,395 | 2,600 | 2,680 |
Source: UCAS end of cycle data, 2018 | |||
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The following table shows the number of midwives who graduated in England in 2016-17. Data for 2018-19 is not yet available.
Midwifery graduates
Midwifery | ||
Academic year | 2016-17 | 2017-18 |
Number of graduates | 2,162 | 2,091 |
Source: Health Education England (HEE) analysis of Higher Education Statistics Agency Student Record | ||
In 2016/17 HEE commissioned 2,605 midwifery places of which 2,602 were filled. Following the removal of the bursary in 2017 midwifery places are no longer directly commissioned by HEE. Places are filled via the normal university application process with the Department making funding available for the provision of their clinical placements while studying.