Nursing

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Health – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 4 July 2017.

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Photo of Wes Streeting Wes Streeting Labour, Ilford North 12:00, 4 July 2017

The fact is that when the Government chose to charge students record levels of tuition fees and scrap their NHS bursary, the Secretary of State and his Ministers were warned that that would lead to a fall in the number of applications, and what has happened since then? The number of applications for nursing degrees has fallen by 23%. Given that the Secretary of State has already acknowledged that we cannot continue our over-reliance on EU staff following Brexit, when will Ministers understand that the biggest challenge facing nursing recruitment is not our policy on the EU, but the Government’s own health policies?

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