Every healthcare student should be offered grants, and tuition fees scrapped.
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Drop in nursing applications is disappointing
Government’s decision to scrap the bursary has clearly deterred people from pursuing a career in nursing
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The government must rethink its plans for the NHS bursary
Today hundreds of healthcare students are descending on Parliament to lobby their MPs to protect the NHS bursary. The government decision in December’s spending review to scrap bursaries will leave student nurses, midwives and allied health professionals with huge levels of debt. And this fear of…Read more…
Save Our NHS Bursaries
I have just signed the Parliamentary Petition here to keep bursaries for trainee NHS Nurses. The petition has 148,815 supporters (according to the map on the site 250 have signed from my West Ham Consistency.
Parliament will debate this petition on Ja…Read more…