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date	15/01/2024
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Midwives
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people entered the NHS midwifery workforce through (a) undergraduate training, (b) an apprenticeship, (c) a postgraduate conversion, (d) a return to midwifery programme and (e) international recruitment in the most recent period for which data are available; and if her Department will make an assessment of the potential impact of each such route on the size of the midwifery workforce in each of the (i) last and (ii) next five years.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Siobhan Baillie
uin	9702
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2024 answer text <p>NHS England is currently considering the methodology for undertaking a proper assessment of the impact of the various supply routes into the midwifery workforce.</p><p> </p><p>The NHS Long Term Workforce Plan published in 2023 sets out the need to grow midwifery education and training, in line with the conclusions of the Ockenden Review. We will increase midwifery training placements from a baseline of 3,778 places to 4,269 places, and that by 2028 we envisage that about 5% will be through apprenticeships. We envisage that trusts will meet establishment levels set by midwifery staffing tools and achieve fill rates by 2027/28. Recent investment in midwifery of 650 training places in 2019 and 1,000 in each of the following three years means we expect to see solid growth in midwives of between 1.8 and 1.9% per year over the course of the plan. These increases are being measured against the 2018/19 baseline of 2,715 starters on midwifery programmes. And in early 2022, a funding offer was agreed to support 300 places for adult nurses on the shortened midwifery programme.</p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson question first answered 23/01/2024 11:17:53 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
tabling member	4847 label Biography information for Siobhan Baillie

1682118

registered interest
date	15/01/2024
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Midwives: Flexible Working
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will make an assessment of the adequacy of the availability of flexible working arrangements for midwives.
tabling member constituency	Stroud
tabling member printed	Siobhan Baillie
uin	9703
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2024 answer text <p>‘We work flexibly’ is one of the elements contained in the NHS People Promise with a commitment to deliver for staff, including midwives by 2024/25.</p><p>NHS England has created and shared flexible working arrangement resources and delivered bespoke webinars and workshops on the issue. They have also brought together midwifery leaders from across the system to share good practice, foster collaboration and support the implementation of flexible working across maternity services.</p><p>In September 2021, contractual changes took effect for employees covered by the NHS Terms &amp; Conditions of Service Handbook which includes the right to request flexible working from day one without the need to provide a justification.</p><p>However, no assessment of the adequacy of the availability of flexible working arrangements specifically for midwives has been made.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 22/01/2024 11:55:02 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
tabling member	4847 label Biography information for Siobhan Baillie