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WHEN we embarked on our student nurse training in the Whittington hospital, the June 90 set enjoyed conditions that are a distant dream for today’s student nurses.
The majority of us were just out of secondary school, so we leaped at the chance of gaining independence alongside the prospect of getting a career under our belts at a young age.
The attractive training package which included subsidised accommodation, subsidised meals and a modest salary for personal expenses, meant that the hospital had no problem recruiting student nurses or filling staffing vacancies with nurses who were loyal to the hospital.
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