NHS Student Bursaries
Watch this postRight now the Government is consulting about plans to axe the bursary for NHS students in 2017. Instead NHS student nurses, midwives, physiotherapists and others will have to take out loans to cover £9,000 tuition fees and maintenance costs every year. Because of the intensity of the course and clinical placements (student nurses and midwives can work 12.5 long shifts) they find it difficult to get regular paid work like other university students and rely on their bursary to aid them through the course. They work in hospitals and other health care settings during some of their training, so basically it means they may be taking out a loan to pay their own salaries! What are peoples thoughts on ending NHS bursaries thereby bring NHS students in line with other university students which may mean they to will also end up with large student debt?
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What a good way to discourage people from becoming nurses.
The Bursary for NHS students relates to nurses, midwives and allied health professionals - your Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, Pharmacists etc. it isn't just nurses.