Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many midwives from the EU are working in the NHS in the latest period for which data is available, broken down by each EU nationality.
NHS Digital publishes Hospital and Community Health Services workforce statistics. These include staff working in hospital trusts and clinical commissioning groups, but not staff working in primary care, general practitioner surgeries, local authorities or other providers.
The following table shows the number of midwives as at December 2019, the latest available data from each European Union nationality, headcount.
Nationality | Midwives, Headcount |
Austrian | 11 |
Belgian | 15 |
Bulgarian | 27 |
Cypriot | 1 |
Czech | 17 |
Danish | 19 |
Dutch | 60 |
Estonian | 4 |
Finnish | 10 |
French | 56 |
German | 51 |
Greek | 32 |
Hungarian | 17 |
Irish | 296 |
Italian | 226 |
Latvian | 5 |
Lithuanian | 17 |
Maltese | 2 |
Polish | 118 |
Portuguese | 45 |
Romanian | 17 |
Slovak | 11 |
Slovenian | 1 |
Spanish | 240 |
Swedish | 22 |
All EU | 1,329 |
United Kingdom | 23,986 |
Rest of the World | 448 |
All Unknowns | 989 |