US EditionNHS ‘to rely on migrants’ as Government cuts British nurse training
- In February 2025, The Scotsman reported a 2% drop in applications for UK nursing courses, declining from 4,650 to 4,560 applicants.
- This decline follows broader funding cuts, including frozen university grants for nursing and financial pressures on hospitals like East Lancashire Hospital Trust.
- In April 2025, graduate nurses were informed by East Lancashire Hospital Trust that job placements after their training would not be assured due to the trust's financial challenges and the need to identify £15 million in savings.
- Channel 4 Fact-Check found that, over the period covering early 2023 through late 2024, Royal Blackburn Hospital staffed 8% fewer nurses than planned, while Burnley General Hospital had a 6% shortfall.
- These trends suggest continued challenges in maintaining nurse staffing levels, increasing reliance on migrant nurses and raising concerns over training funding and workforce sustainability.
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NHS 'reliant' on migrant workers as Labour cuts funding for nursing courses
The Government has frozen grants paid to universities for nursing courses, effectively imposing a real-terms cut that critics say undermines Labour's manifesto pledge to reduce the NHS's dependence on overseas workers
The British Labour government has announced new, strict immigration laws, so that nurses will no longer be recruited from abroad, even though they are indispensable for the healthcare industry. By Mareike Aden.
NHS Forced To Rely On Migrants As Government Cuts Funding For British Nurse Training
In a move that will likely undermine its pledge to end the National Health Service’s reliance on foreign workers, the UK Government has cut funding for nursing courses Government ministers have quietly frozen grants that [...] The post NHS Forced To Rely On Migrants As Government Cuts Funding For British Nurse Training appeared first on The People's Voice.
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