Maternity Services: Wiltshire
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many (a) midwives, (b) obstetricians and (c) maternity support workers were employed in NHS Trusts serving Wiltshire as of the most recent date for which data is available.
Answered by Karin Smyth
NHS England publishes Hospital and Community Health Services workforce statistics for England. This covers staff working for hospital trusts and in integrated care in England. This data is drawn from the Electronic Staff Record, the human resources system for the National Health Service. Data is collected by the employing body and as such we have supplied information for the three main acute hospital trusts which would cover the Wiltshire region.
The following table shows the number of full-time equivalent midwives, obstetricians and gynaecologist, as data is not held for obstetricians alone, and maternity support workers employed by NHS trusts and core organisations within the Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, the Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust, and the Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust, as of April 2025:
Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust | Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust | |
Midwifes | 152 | 186 | 100 |
Obstetricians and gynaecologists of all grades | 40 | 36 | 25 |
Obstetricians and gynaecologists - consultants | 17 | 16 | 10 |
Maternity support workers | 51 | 58 | 26 |
Source: NHS workforce statistics, available at the following link:
https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/nhs-workforce-statistics
Maternity support staff have been defined as all support staff that work in a ‘maternity services’ and ‘neonatal nursing’ care setting. This includes nursing associates, nursing assistant practitioners, nursery nurses, nursing assistants/auxiliaries, healthcare assistants, and support workers.
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