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Stop the UK Government from cutting student nurse bursaries.

Submitted on Sunday 22nd November 2015

Rejected on Tuesday 24th November 2015

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

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Stop the UK Government from cutting student nurse bursaries.

Petition Details

George Osborne and the UK treasury are looking to axe funding from Health Education. They are considering cutting student nurse bursaries and making student nurses take loans to pay tuition fees. STN's work on wards for 50% of their course, they already receive minimal financial recompense for this.

Additional Information

Student nurses in England currently only receive a £1000 non means tested bursary from the NHS. Any other finance received is based on household income. A student nurse is required to work 37.5 hrs a week for 50% of the 3 years they are training. The cutting of bursary funding will lead to an exacerbation of the current nurse shortage. A newly qualified nurse will be burdened with a massive debt when only being paid £21,478 per annum. This will discourage people from joining the profession.


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This petition was rejected

The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:

There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.

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