Medicine: Education

(asked on 22nd June 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will restore the bursary for nursing and health care students.


Answered by
Philip Dunne Portrait
Philip Dunne
This question was answered on 30th June 2017

The Government has set out its intention for these changes to be implemented in August 2017. There are no plans to re-instate bursaries for Nursing, Midwives and Allied Health Professions.

The reforms mean we can move away from centrally imposed number controls and financial limitations. As a result, we expect this to enable up to 10,000 additional nursing and other health professional training places over this parliament.

Entry to nursing, midwifery and allied health profession remains extremely competitive with a ratio from applications this January of nearly two applicants per nurse training place; this shows that there remains strong demand from students who want to study for a high-quality nursing degree.

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