Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many nurses on the Nursing and Midwifery Council register are qualified as nurse prescribers.
The information requested is not collected by the Department.
The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) is the independent regulator of nurses and midwives in the United Kingdom and is responsible for nurse and midwifery registration. The NMC reports that as at 31 January 2018, 73,209 nurses on its register were qualified as nurse prescribers.