Student nurses will be paid until the end of their NHS frontline contracts

Royal College of Nursing welcomed the clarity following a period of ‘confusion and distress’Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe Royal College of Nursing has welcomed an assurance that student nurses drafted intofrontline NHS services battling coronavirus in England will have their contracts honoured following a period of “confusion and distress”.It comes after anger mounted among some of the 18,700 student nurses who started working in hospitals before their training ended believedtheir contracts had been ended earlier than expected as Covid-19 cases fell and the pressure on healthcare services continued to ease.Continue reading...
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