Ensure all healthcare students are paid while on NHS placements

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Ensure all healthcare students are paid while on NHS placements

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To consider at the very minimum an apprentice style wage for students in the healthcare profession. Due to understaffing, students are having to make up numbers and have less contact time with their mentors, we are working rather than learning.

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Student Paramedics and nurses normally work 37.5 hours a week (and often 48 hours recently due to waiting times at hospitals) when on placement . For many, this leaves no time to make any money from work, which can make it unaffordable for many people to undertake a degree in the health profession. Healthcare students complete on average 2,300 hours of placement and contribute hugely to teams across our national health services. Despite this, we are still regarded as supernumerary.

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