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<p>NHS Digital publishes Hospital and Community Health Services workforce statistics. These include staff working in hospital trusts and clinical commissioning groups, but not staff working in primary care, local authorities or other providers.</p><p>The information requested is attached due to the size of the data. The table shows the number of support workers employed within the care setting of maternity services, in the National Health Service in England, in each of the last three years in headcount and full-time equivalents, by five-year age band, as at September 30 for the years specified.</p><p>In March last year, the former Secretary of State for Health and Social Care (Rt. hon. Jeremy Hunt MP) announced that there will be further investment in maternity support staff. This would include working with the Royal College of Midwives and other partners to develop new training routes into midwifery – this will help talented support workers to develop and move quickly to become registered midwives and help the midwifery profession attract and retain talented staff.</p> |