Cutting financial ‘lifeline’ to student nurses will leave them thousands of pounds in debt
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save the NHS bursary
At a time when our NHS faces a nursing shortage (due in part to mismanagement and attacks on the profession), the government should be pulling out all of the stops to attract more people into careers in the health service.
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Huge drop in the number of NHS students if the NHS bursary is scrapped, will mean even fewer qualified new recruits from 2020 – causing trusts to spend more on agency staff or overseas recruitment to make up the inevitable shortfall in numbers
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We need to find a way to address the funding crisis facing students in the NHS – but not by plunging those same students into debt, and putting the future of our health service on the line.
General Secretary's blog, News on the UNISON National
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Help save the NHS bursary for student nurses, midwives and other health professionals in England
Article on the UNISON National
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General secretary, shadow health secretary and service group chair unite to sing praises of NHS and its workers
Article, News on the UNISON National
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Student nurses take their fight to save the NHS bursary back onto the capital’s streets
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Higher education delegates pledge to lobby for a reversal of Chancellor George Osborne’s decision to scrap bursary
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Saving less than a million pounds a week whilst making it harder to recruit more nurses, plans to cut the NHS bursary must be one of the most foolish, petty and self-defeating cuts to come from this government
General Secretary's blog, News on the UNISON National
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Rallies and marches back the NHS bursary in London, Manchester and Newcastle
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