Royal Marsden Manual

Update on accessing the resource

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Nursing

It’s the Year of the Nurse, but will 2020 see nursing student numbers recover?

The previous Conservative government hoped that removing the nursing bursary in 2017 would mean universities would offer more training places, eventually leading to 10,000 more nursing students. Instead the number of nursing applications dropped, while acceptances remained broadly static. The new Conservative government has restored elements of the bursary, but will this be enough to address the decrease in applications of recent years?

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Royal College of Nursing

Gender and nursing as a profession: valuing nurses and paying them their worth

This report explores and critiques the gendered construction of value within the nursing profession and evaluates how value is attributed to nursing, the value placed on individuals and the status of the profession.

Read the report here