Scrapping nurses’ bursaries was met with almost universal condemnation. But could it be a good thing?
- Professor of Nursing, University of Hull
We asked two academics to check Jeremy Hunt’s figures.
‘Nurse practitioners’ and ‘physician associates’ were roles created in the US to make up for a shortfall in doctors. Now the NHS is encouraging their use.
In the US, nurses take part in executions by lethal injection. They justify their role by saying it makes executions ‘safer’.
Nurses have taken on a surprising number of tasks that were once the preserve of doctors. And they do them exceptionally well.
Nursing apprenticeships didn’t work out the first time and now they’re back, and pose a risk to patients.
Some good news for UK government policy.
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