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NHS Funding Bill

Proceeding contribution from Jonathan Ashworth (Labour) in the House of Commons on Monday, 27 January 2020. It occurred during Debate on bills on NHS Funding Bill.

My hon. Friend is absolutely right. Of course, we are short of 44,000 nurses across the whole national health service. One of the most damaging policy decisions that George Osborne made—probably another of the Secretary of State’s ideas—was to cut nurse training places in 2011 and get rid of the training bursary. The Government say that they will bring back a grant, but they are not going to go the whole hog, are they? They are not going to get rid of tuition fees. They still expect people to train to be nurses and build up huge debts, because the nature of the training that they have to go through means that they will not be able to take a job on the side. I do not believe that is the way we

should recruit nurses for the future; we should bring back the whole bursary for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals.

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
670 c574 
Session
2019-21
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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