Health written question – answered at on 25 June 2012.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the attrition rate was for student nurses as a proportion of the starting cohort on each nursing pre-registration (a) degree and (b) diploma course completing in (i) 2010 and (ii) 2011.
Nursing attrition rate calculations are based on the number of starters and leavers in each financial year. A nurse training course is typically three years long, however, it can take five years for a cohort to complete, due to trainees deferring for reasons such as maternity leave. The cohort completing in 2010 started in financial year 2006-07, for which the nursing attrition rates were 13.6% for degree and 28.5% for diploma.
Attrition figures for cohorts completing in 2011 have not yet been submitted to the Department, but should be available by the end July 2012.
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