bursaries

Nursing leaders today warn the NHS faces a staffing crisis after figures showed a sharp fall in applications for training places. The number applying to be student nurses has dropped from 65,620 to 53,010 - a fall of 12,610 on last year. The fall comes after the Government axed student...

Britain’s major health organisations have called on the government to put a stop to “reckless” plans to reform student nurse funding in the current climate of uncertainty and NHS staff shortages. Led by the Royal College of Nursing, the British Medical Association, the Royal College of General...

Plans to scrap student bursaries and charge nurses and other health staff for their degrees in England could backfire, unions are warning. Ministers plan to overhaul the funding system in September 2017 and charge those studying to be front-line health workers for their degrees. But the Royal...

Plans to axe bursaries and replace them with loans have been condemned by unions, but universities say they will lead to more training places for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals. Plans to scrap bursaries for student nurses, midwives and allied health professionals and replace...