Nurses: Training
(asked on 13th April 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many students were enrolled to study nursing at university in each of the last five years; and what estimate he has made of the number of students who will enrol to study nursing in the Autumn 2017 intake.
The table below shows the total number of pre-registration nurse training places that were filled at universities in England in each of the last five years.
Course | 2011/12 | 2012/13 | 2013/14 | 2014/15 | 2015/16 |
Nurse total | 17,741 | 17,219 | 17,568 | 19,147 | 19,949 |
Source: Data from 2014/15 onwards is sourced through Health Education England; data prior to 2014/15 was sourced through the Department’s Financial Information Management System.
The application cycle for student nurse intake in autumn 2017 is ongoing. Applicants can continue to apply until the end of June or can enter clearing following A Level results in August. The last publication from the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) in March 2017 showed that there were 40,560 applicants for the 23,237 commissioned nursing and midwifery courses in England. UCAS will continue to release updated information about the number of offers made by universities and acceptances from candidates.