Government confirms removal of student nursing bursary
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Source: Nursing in Practice - July 21, 2016 Category: Nursing Authors: carolynwickware Tags: Professional Editor ' s pick Latest News Source Type: news
Axing bursaries 'dangerous threat' to patient care post Brexit, warns peer
Government plans to scrap student nurse bursaries and move to a loans system in England have become “increasingly risky” following the UK’s decision to leave the European Union and should be paused, a peer will warn later today. (Source: Nursing Times)
Source: Nursing Times - July 21, 2016 Category: Nursing Source Type: news
Government should review effect of bursary proposals on second degree students, say MPs
The Health Select Committee has recommended the Government review the impact of removing bursaries on students taking it as a second degree
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Source: Nursing in Practice - July 20, 2016 Category: Nursing Authors: carolynwickware Tags: Professional Editor ' s pick Latest News Source Type: news
Impact of scrapping bursaries must be reviewed, say MPs
Plans to scrap student bursaries must be reviewed to assess their impact on the supply of nursing staff and to see if a “transitional approach” can be applied to those who train as a second degree, a committee of MPs has said. (Source: Nursing Times)
Source: Nursing Times - July 19, 2016 Category: Nursing Source Type: news
London mayor calls for ‘immediate halt’ to removal of bursaries
Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has called for “an immediate halt” to government plans to replace healthcare student bursaries with loans, warning the move would hit nurse recruitment and healthcare services in the capital. (Source: Nursing Times)
Source: Nursing Times - July 19, 2016 Category: Nursing Source Type: news
Government must solve NHS cash crisis, says UNISON
Commenting on the publication today (Tuesday) of the Health Select Committee report on the government’s spending review, UNISON head of health Christina McAnea said:
“The NHS doesn’t have the cash to sustain it until the end of the decade. Ministers claim to be protecting health spending, but the reality is very different.
“The extra money the government conjured up last year won’t make up for cuts to public health and health education now underway.
“What’s worse, the government is storing up yet more problems for the future through its unrealistic approach to pay and ill-considered plans for training tomorro...
Source: UNISON Health care news - July 18, 2016 Category: UK Health Authors: Rosa Ellis Tags: Press release Source Type: news
Nursing bursary proposals could help workforce numbers
Forcing nursing students to take out student loans rather than providing bursaries might boost workforce numbers, says The Health Foundation
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Source: Nursing in Practice - July 14, 2016 Category: Nursing Authors: carolynwickware Tags: Professional Editor ' s pick Latest News Source Type: news
QNI demands greater clarity on effects of bursary proposals on post-registration nurses
The QNI has added its voice to the campaign against the new Government funding proposals for student nurses
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Source: Nursing in Practice - July 12, 2016 Category: Nursing Authors: carolynwickware Tags: Professional Editor ' s pick Latest News Source Type: news
New motion tabled by MPs over bursary removal
Nurses are being urged to get their MPs to back a new early day motion tabled in parliament over the scrapping of bursaries for healthcare students. (Source: Nursing Times)
Source: Nursing Times - July 12, 2016 Category: Nursing Source Type: news
Associate nursing role not a ‘quick fix’ for staff shortages
Associate nurses will not fix the NHS’s nursing shortage but new bursary proposals could, says the Health Foundation
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Source: Nursing in Practice - July 11, 2016 Category: Nursing Authors: carolynwickware Tags: Professional Editor ' s pick Latest News Source Type: news
One in three nurses to reach retirement age within 10 years
Insufficient ‘home-grown’ nurses to fill gap; Brexit will hit supply hard, warns reportRelated items from OnMedicaNursing associates must not be ‘nurses on the cheap’ NHS hospitals face shortfall of 15,000 nurses, says workforce analysisFour in ten nurses threaten to quit London Cost of agency nurses soarsPlans to scrap student nurse bursary 'reckless' (Source: OnMedica Latest News)
Source: OnMedica Latest News - July 8, 2016 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
Diane Abbott attacks plan to axe student nurse bursaries
Labour’s new shadow health secretary, Diane Abbott, has used one of her first statements to attack government plans to replace student nurse bursaries with a system of loans. (Source: Nursing Times)
Source: Nursing Times - July 8, 2016 Category: Nursing Source Type: news
Members mark NHS’s 68th birthday in Newcastle
“Taking away student bursaries will make it harder for a lot of people to take up nursing, and understaffing could lead to the government privatising everything,” UNISON rep Helen Kilpatrick said at a rally to mark the 68th birthday of the NHS in Newcastle this week.
“We want to celebrate the birthday and the next 68 years,” she told local paper The Chronicle as she joined other union members and activists at Grey’s Monument in the City Centre.
The rally marked the NHS’s birthday with balloons and birthday cake for passers by – and collected signatures on a petition calling on the government not to scrap ...
Source: UNISON Health care news - July 8, 2016 Category: UK Health Authors: Tony Braisby Tags: News health care Newcastle NHS NHS bursary save the NHS bursary Source Type: news
'Extreme concerns' over bursary removal risks laid out
Community nurses and NHS trusts are the latest groups to raise further concerns over the government’s plans to axe bursaries for student nurses and switch to a loans system next year. (Source: Nursing Times)
Source: Nursing Times - July 6, 2016 Category: Nursing Source Type: news
Ask your MP to sign EDM on the NHS bursary
UNISON is urging everyone who is concerned about the scrapping of the NHS bursary to ask their MP to sign EDM 294 on the issue.
In his autumn statement, Chancellor George Osborne announced the scrapping of the NHS bursary in England for new student nurses, midwives and allied health professionals from 2017.
The NHS bursary system will be replaced with the standard undergraduate system, with fees of up to £9,000 and a much larger student loan for maintenance.
These changes would see students burdened with at least £51,600 of debt, plus interest and any overdraft and commercial debt.
UNISON is concerned that these changes...
Source: UNISON Health care news - July 5, 2016 Category: UK Health Authors: Amanda Kendal Tags: Article News EDM health health care NHS NHS bursary nurses parliament save the NHS bursary student nurses Source Type: news
