Nurses: Training
(asked on 12th December 2024) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask His Majesty's Government how many student nurses completed their training as a registered nurse in each year from 2018 to 2023.
The Higher Education Statistics Agency publishes data on the number of students qualifying from higher education courses in the United Kingdom, and this includes information on a broad ranges of undergraduate nursing courses. The published data is not detailed enough to allow for the reliable identification of all students completing courses which specifically lead to registered nursing status.
As a proxy for the number of students completing nursing courses each year, the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) publishes information on the number of UK trained nurses joining their register for the first time, who are resident in England. The following table shows the number of UK trained nurses joining the NMC register in England for the first time, each financial year from 2018/19 to 2023/24:
Year | Number of UK qualified registered nurses joining the NMC register for the first time |
2018/19 | 16,726 |
2019/20 | 17,503 |
2020/21 | 15,083 |
2021/22 | 15,132 |
2022/23 | 16,420 |
2023/24 | 18,478 |
Source: Nursing and Midwifery Council, March 2024 Annual Data Report