Midwives
(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, what the age profile is of NHS midwives, and how many NHS midwives in each age category are (a) UK nationals and (b) nationals of EU member states other than the UK.
NHS Digital publishes Hospital and Community Health Services (HCHS) workforce statistics for England. These include staff working in hospital trusts and clinical commissioning groups (CCGs), but not staff working in primary care, local authorities or other providers.
The following table shows the number of midwives as at June 2019, the latest available data broken down by age and nationality. The data is headcount because nationality data relates to individuals.
Age band | All nationalities | United Kingdom | European Union | European Economic Area | Rest of World | Unknown |
All age bands | 26,192 | 23,177 | 1,344 | 11 | 447 | 1,213 |
Under 25 | 1,394 | 1,327 | 37 | 2 | 2 | 26 |
25 to 29 | 3,569 | 3,156 | 324 | - | 14 | 75 |
30 to 34 | 3,523 | 3,132 | 293 | 2 | 13 | 83 |
35 to 39 | 3,382 | 3,030 | 177 | 2 | 39 | 134 |
40 to 44 | 3,097 | 2,728 | 156 | 2 | 79 | 132 |
45 to 49 | 3,079 | 2,694 | 117 | 1 | 96 | 171 |
50 to 54 | 3,923 | 3,473 | 75 | 1 | 86 | 288 |
55 to 59 | 2,886 | 2,515 | 83 | - | 57 | 231 |
60 to 64 | 1,132 | 956 | 66 | - | 45 | 65 |
65 and over | 207 | 166 | 16 | 1 | 16 | 8 |