Nurses: Training

Department of Health and Social Care written question – answered at on 27 March 2018.

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Photo of Emma Reynolds Emma Reynolds Labour, Wolverhampton North East

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many nursing students there were in each year since 2010.

Photo of Steve Barclay Steve Barclay Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)

The table below shows the number of nursing students in training in any year of a nursing degree between 2010/11 and 2016/17.

Academic year

2010/11

2011/12

2012/13

2013/14

2014/15

2015/16

2016/17

Number of nursing students

52,836

51,713

52,811

No data

50,139

51,386

52,606

Notes:

- Information prior to 2013 was sourced using the Department’s Financial Information Management System. Data collected after 2013 is sourced using the Health Education England EDCOM (Education Commissioning) reports.

- Data for the 2013/14 academic years are not available due to commissioning moving from the Department to Health Education England.

- Student numbers are recorded as of March in each academic year.

- Data for 2017/18 are not yet available.

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