Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 108833

Nurses: Employment

Tabled: 27 January 2026
Answered: 5 February 2026

Question

James Naish

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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will estimate the number of newly-qualified nurses who lose their professional status because they have been unable to secure employment within two years of graduation.

Answer

Karin Smyth
The Nursing Midwifery Council (NMC) is the independent regulator of nurses and midwives in the United Kingdom, and nursing associates in England. It sets the standards that registrants must meet to demonstrate that they are capable of practising safely an...

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