Mental health and learning disability student nurses to receive extra £1,000 grant
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Mental health and learning disability student nurses to receive extra £1,000 grant

Byangie vallejo

This article was taken from: https://www.nursinginpractice.com/community-nursing/mental-health-learning-disability-grant By  Mimi Launder Students in ‘shortage specialisms’ such as mental health and learning disability nursing will receive an extra £1,000 each year they are at university, the Government confirmed yesterday (20 January). It also released details of further payments to cover childcare costs and for students in regions ‘struggling…

NHS plans to expand student places for ‘home grown’ doctors from disadvantaged backgrounds

NHS plans to expand student places for ‘home grown’ doctors from disadvantaged backgrounds

ByMatthew Betteridge

A new NHS plan to create more medical school places, confirmed to start next year, will target students from disadvantaged backgrounds to make the medical workforce more diverse, the Government has said. The Department of Health announced in October it will fund up to an extra 1,500 medical training places in England a year by 2020…