Health Professions: Training

(asked on 1st December 2015) - View Source
Questioner
Lord MacKenzie of Culkein Portrait
Lord MacKenzie of Culkein
(Labour - Life peer)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what was the capped number of nursing and midwifery students in each year since 1999.

Answered by
Lord Prior of Brampton Portrait
Lord Prior of Brampton
This question was answered on 10th December 2015

The following table shows the number of pre-registration nursing and midwifery places (degree and diploma courses) that were commissioned by year, for the period 2000-01 to 2015-16. Information on planned commissions for the period 1999-2000 is not available.


Year

Nursing

Midwifery

2000-01

19,460

1,983

2001-02

20,668

2,029

2002-03

21,949

2,250

2003-04

23,553

2,285

2004-05

24,956

2,425

2005-06

24,520

2,380

2006-07

22,964

2,170

2007-08

21,569

2,115

2008-09

21,732

2,274

2009-10

21,337

2,537

2010-11

20,327

2,493

2011-12

18,069

2,507

2012-13

17,546

2,578

2013-14

18,056

2,588

2014-15

19,206

2,563

2015-16

20,033

2,605

Source: multi professional education and training budget monitoring returns

Health Education England are the in process of developing commissioning plans for 2016-17. This process will conclude later this month with the publication of the Workforce Plan for England 2016-17.

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