Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many maternity support workers there were in the NHS in each of the last five years.
The following table shows the full-time equivalent number of maternity support workers working in National Health Service hospital trusts and other core organisations in England, annually from September 2018 to 2023:
Year | Maternity Services | Neonatal Nursing | Total |
September 2018 | 6,843 | 417 | 7,260 |
September 2019 | 6,951 | 435 | 7,386 |
September 2020 | 7,126 | 474 | 7,600 |
September 2021 | 6,987 | 464 | 7,451 |
September 2022 | 7,195 | 443 | 7,638 |
September 2023 | 7,577 | 485 | 8,063 |
Source: NHS Workforce Statistics, NHS Digital
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