Nurses and Nursing Associates: Termination of Employment
(asked on 12th December 2024) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask His Majesty's Government how many registered nurses and registered nursing associates left the Nursing and Midwifery Council resister in each of the years from 2018 to 2023.
The Department does not hold this information centrally. As the independent regulator of nurses and midwives in the United Kingdom, and nursing associates in England, the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) is responsible for nurse registration. The NMC publishes annual reports on its website detailing registration data, including the number of leavers, covering the period 2018 to 2023.
The following table shows the number people leaving the NMC register by registration type and financial year:
Year | Midwife | Nurse | Nurse and midwife | Nursing associate | Total |
2018/19 | 1,587 | 27,202 | 351 |
| 29,140 |
2019/20 | 1,439 | 23,757 | 286 | 8 | 25,490 |
2020/21 | 1,333 | 22,344 | 215 | 43 | 23,935 |
2021/22 | 1,474 | 25,222 | 305 | 134 | 27,135 |
2022/23 | 1,490 | 24,774 | 245 | 250 | 26,759 |
2023/24 | 1,432 | 25,203 | 251 | 282 | 27,168 |
Source: Nursing and Midwifery Council Annual Data Report.