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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 them with loans were announced by the chancellor, George Osborne, in his spending review.
The measures will allow the cap on the number of student places to be lifted and the government claims this will enable the NHS to provide up to 10,000 extra training places this parliament. The move has been condemned by unions, but could making students pay for training be the medicine the health service needs to cure its chronic nursing shortage?
The changes will come into force in 2017. The government hopes they will save the Department of Health around £800m in funding that it currently uses to support 60,000 student nurses in England through their three-year degree courses.
http://www.theguardian.com/healthca...-bursaries-help-or-worsen-nhs-staffing-crisis
Plans to scrap bursaries for student nurses, midwives and allied health professionals and replace them with loans were announced by the chancellor, George Osborne, in his spending review.
The measures will allow the cap on the number of student places to be lifted and the government claims this will enable the NHS to provide up to 10,000 extra training places this parliament. The move has been condemned by unions, but could making students pay for training be the medicine the health service needs to cure its chronic nursing shortage?
The changes will come into force in 2017. The government hopes they will save the Department of Health around £800m in funding that it currently uses to support 60,000 student nurses in England through their three-year degree courses.
http://www.theguardian.com/healthca...-bursaries-help-or-worsen-nhs-staffing-crisis
