Insight spotlight
Our annual insight spotlight aims to influence positive changes within the sector for the benefit of our professions and the public.
Using our own data, and that shared by our partners, we improve our understanding and response to issues within the health and care sector.
We share our insights to highlight issues that we know affect the quality and safety of care that people receive.
2025 report
This edition of Spotlight is divided into three sections:
1. The nursing and midwifery workforce in numbers
This section looks at the numbers coming onto the register from the UK and internationally and those leaving it, including people who may want to work outside the UK and therefore require proof that they’ve been on our register.
2. The profile of nursing and midwifery
This section examines data captured as part of our revalidation process to explore what this tells us about the practise of the professionals on our register.
3. Experiences in nursing and midwifery practice
This section looks at people’s experiences practising in the UK and how this differs across the four UK countries, professions and different demographic groups.
Read the spotlight on Nursing and Midwifery Report 2025
NMC Professionals Survey Full Report 2025
Previous reports
The 2024 edition of Spotlight is divided into three sections:
1. People's expectations of care.
2. People's experiences of care.
3. People's experiences of raising concerns about care.
Each section of the report concludes with a ‘Using insights’ section that details how we and others can make use of the insights included in the report.
Spotlight on Nursing and Midwifery Report 2024
Spotlight on Nursing and Midwifery: Underpinning research report annexe 2024
Our first insight spotlight highlights the state of nursing and midwifery in the wider landscape of learning and practice in 2023.
In it we focus on important themes impacting patient care, including discrimination in the workplace; lack of support for new nurses, midwives and nursing associates, and midwifery safety concerns.
Spotlight on Nursing and Midwifery report 2023
Spotlight on Nursing and Midwifery: Underpinning research report annexe 2023
