Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many nurses working in the NHS in England were aged 70 years or older in each of the last five years.
NHS Digital publishes workforce statistics and the following table shows the number of qualified nurses and health visitors who are 70 and over 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): Qualified nurses and health visitors by 5 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
Qualified nurses and health visitors age profile (headcount) | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | March 2017 |
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70 and over | 166 | 209 | 251 | 296 | 350 | 411 |
Source: NHS Digital, Provisional NHS HCHS monthly workforce statistics.