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It comes as measures to make studying more affordable come into force.

Nursing students in England will now be able to claim 50% more for the cost of accommodation and travel for their clinical placements, the government has announced.

The Royal College of Midwives estimates that the NHS in England has a shortfall of 2,500 midwives. Data reveals 86 NHS trusts in England spent more than £96 million on agency and bank midwives in 2022/23.

Funds required would be equivalent to raising all income tax rates by six percentage points

Boosting NHS staffing to the required levels would require a return to annual Government funding rises of 3.6% - not seen for more than a decade, say the Institute for Fiscal Studies

In their first interview with Nursing Times, the new chief executive and chair of the Council of Deans of Health have described some of the key challenges facing nursing education right now, and how universities are looking to address them.

The NHS workforce plan has not considered the long-term funding that will be needed to cover the salaries of an expanded workforce, new research has revealed.

EXCLUSIVE : The NHS is failing stroke patients with two thirds of specialist wards without enough properly trained stroke staff, new figures reveal

Training for health visitors needs to grow quicker than the NHS Workforce Plan proposes, the Institute for Health Visitors has told.

Nurses are caring for “unsafe” numbers of patients, the Royal College of Nursing has warned, as the NHS in England has now gone a year with more than 40,000 nurse vacancies.