Nursing and midwifery register grows but so does number of people leaving

Nursing and midwifery register grows but so does number of people leaving The number of nursing and midwifery professionals registered to practise in the UK has grown to more than 758,000. But the number of people leaving the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) register has also started to rise.

The number of people joining the register for the first time has also risen, by 13,919 to 48,436. Almost half of first-time joiners trained outside the UK.

A total of 27,133 professionals left the NMC register in 2021–2022. That’s 13 percent more than the year before, and starts to reverse a downward trend in leavers over the recent years.

See also: 

• RCN responds to new NMC data showing a 13% increase in people leaving the profession Royal College of Nursing
• Half of new nurses and midwives come from abroad BBC News
• Record 23,000 NHS nurses and midwives employed last year - nearly HALF of new workforce - came from abroad, with the majority recruited in India and the Philippines The Daily Mail
• Numbers of nurses and midwives leaving NHS highest for four years The Guardian