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The government should be busting a gut to recruit more student nurses. And yet this governments desperate […]

More than three-quarters (77%) of voters who took part in the YouGov survey believe the government must carry on paying the tuition fees of student nurses and others studying to become NHS health […]

Responding to the announcement today (Thursday) that the government is to plough ahead with scrapping nursing bursaries and replacing them with loans and fees, UNISON head of health Christina McAnea said: “It was clear from the start that this consultation was a sham. Ministers have simply not listened. They seem not to care that in […]

“Government claims that this will attract more students to the profession are totally unfounded, and will not […]

“Lowering fees for HE must be accompanied by further government funding to make up the gap that will hit universities providing costly science and medicine […]

The government intends to remove the bursaries for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals in England […]

During the afternoon, the trainee nurses aim to hand in a letter to Jeremy Hunt urging the government to think again about replacing the bursary with loans and tuition fees. From September 2017, any […]

Emily Heron’s dream to become a nurse is being thwarted by the government’s decision to scrap the NHS bursary

“The government must work with unions, and professional bodies representing student healthcare staff and doctors […]

Don’t believe the promises on public spending

Healthcare assistants (HCAs) working in the NHS are doing the jobs of nurses without the equivalent pay or education, says a report from UNISON published today (Friday). Two in five (39%) say they have not received the training necessary to provide the care expected of them such as looking after dementia patients, according to the […]

Fees leave students with long-term financial burdens and deter many talented young people from going to […]

Student nurses take their fight to save the NHS bursary back onto the capital’s streets

“The government attacks on junior medics will come as no surprise to student nurses, who are already on the […]

Nurses and other healthcare workers will be paying off their student loans almost until the day they retire UNISON is warning today (Saturday), as student nurses prepare to take part in protests against government plans to axe the NHS bursaries. UNISON says that controversial government plans to axe the bursaries could leave trainees more than […]