Nursing students will soon occupy to take out loans rather than get an NHS-funded bursary. Will this help to create more places or damage the healthcare sector?When the chancellor,George Osborne, announced in final autumn’s spending review that bursaries for nursing students in England would be scrapped and replaced with loans it sparked demonstrations, and an online petition signed by more than 150000 people and a special parliamentary debate.
Thousands of student nurses and midwives marched through London,Manchester and Newcastle in January protesting that the unusual system would achieve off potential students, causing serious knock-on effects for the future of the health service.
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Source: theguardian.com