Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the removal of NHS bursaries on the number of people studying podiatry in England.
The latest data on the number of people accepting an offer to study a podiatry course in England is presented in the following table.
Academic year | 2015-16 | 2016-17 | 2017-18 | 2018-19 | 2019-20 |
Number of acceptances | 285 | 305 | 230 | 215 | 180 |
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Source: Universities and Colleges Admissions Service End of Cycle data, 2019