PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Nurses: Recruitment (23 April 2021)

Question Asked

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress the Government has made on recruiting additional nurses.

Asked by:
Lee Anderson (Reform UK)

Answer

We are on target to deliver 50,000 more nurses by the end of this Parliament. The latest published NHS Digital statistics show the number of nurses has increased by almost 10,900 between January 2020 and January 2021, excluding health visitors and midwives.


Answered by:
Helen Whately (Conservative)
28 April 2021

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