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Bursary cut will cost NHS staff and risk lives
TORY plans to scrap bursaries for nursing, midwifery and other health degree students will cripple the NHS, leaving it dangerously understaffed, union research reveals today.
According to a new report commissioned by trade unions Unison and the National Union of Students (NUS), the £800 million cut would see around 2,000 fewer people going into healthcare degrees each year.
Plans to change the £1,000 to £4,000 yearly bursaries into loans were originally announced in the Chancellor’s Spending Review last November.
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