Nursing Associates: Training
(asked on 9th January 2025) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask His Majesty's Government how many student nursing associates completed their training for adult social care in each year from 2018 to 2023.
The Department does not hold the information requested. 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 the number of UK trained nursing associates joining its register for the first time in England, which will be a close proxy for the number completing training. Skills for Care data shows that in 2023/24, there were 700 nursing associates in adult social care, a decrease of 50 from 2022/23.
The following table shows the number of UK trained nursing associates joining the NMC register in England for the first time, each financial year from 2018/19 to 2023/24:
Year | Number of UK trained nursing associates joining the NMC register for the first time |
2018/19 | 485 |
2019/20 | 1,182 |
2020/21 | 2,708 |
2021/22 | 2,743 |
2022/23 | 3,166 |
2023/24 | 3,343 |
Source: Nursing and Midwifery Council, March 2024 Annual Data Report