HC Deb 21 January 2004 vol 416 cc1362-4W
Dr. Murrison

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what proportion of student nurses who enrolled for courses in(a) general nursing, (b) paediatric nursing, (c) midwifery and (d) psychiatric nursing successfully completed their course in each year since 1973. [148647]

Mr. Hutton

Information for England on the percentage of pre-registration student nurses who have completed their course is shown in the following table. Data is not held before the 1994–95 financial year and has not been collected since October 2001. It is therefore only accurate for cohorts up to 1997–98, most students on subsequent cohorts had not completed courses by October 2001.

Pre-registration student nurses who have completed their course Percentage
Percentage
Year of

cohort

Midwifery Adult Mental

health

Learning

disability

Child
1994–95 75.27 78.18 76.51 70.73 77.43
1995–96 78.13 76.67 74.14 72.67 74.31
1996–97 73.48 75.32 73.05 67.59 74.29
1997–98 74.33 72.27 70.31 65.28 70.42

Note:

This data is based on a snapshot in time of a particular cohort(s) and therefore each year there will still be students who have yet to complete their course.

Dr. Murrison

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the drop-out rate was in England for student nurses studying(a) general nursing, (b) paediatric nursing, (c) midwifery and (d) psychiatric nursing in each year since 1973. [148648]

Mr. Hutton

Most recent information for England on the percentage of pre-registration student nurses who have left their course is shown in the table. Data is not held before the 1994–95 financial year.

Pre-registration student nurses who have left their course
Percentage
Midwifery Adult Mental

health

Learning

disability

Child
1994–95 22.08 18.87 19.91 25.64 19.66
1995–96 17.43 17.75 20.56 20.29 19.46
1996–97 21.84 18.91 19.58 24.44 20.05
1997–98 18.23 18.82 20.05 21.67 21.95
1998–99 17.17 17.61 16.18 19.74 16.99
1999–2000 14.59 12.45 12.63 14.6 15.86
2000–01 6.7 5.98 6.47 6.48 6.75

Note:

This data is based on a snapshot in time of a particular cohort(s) and therefore each year there will still be students who have yet to complete their course. The last data collection was October 2001 so the attrition rate for the later cohorts is incomplete.