UKCC.
The number of under 25-year-olds entering nursing is falling, the latest statistics from the United Kingdom Central Council show. Despite an increase of almost 4 per cent in the number of nurses, midwives and health visitors between 1988 and 1990, there was a fall in the number of practitioners under 25. It is nothing that was not anticipated from the demographic trends that were there for all to see,' said Reg Pyne, UKCC Assistant Registrar Standards and Ethics.