Placement Contracts For Student Nurses Cut Short

[mushroom25]

In mid-April, NHS England reported that nearly 15,000 student nurses, midwives and medical students had joined “frontline NHS teams as part of the nationwide coronavirus fightback”.
Sir Simon Stevens, NHS chief executive, praised them at the time, saying they were “stepping up to serve in the fight against coronavirus”.

now it's been announced their contracts are being terminated early, leaving some with no income.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/jun/17/student-nurses-irate-after-nhs-frontline-contracts-cut-short

bit of a kick in the teeth for those who willingly stepped up to the plate, eh?

[bednobs]

if you actually read the story rather than the headline it paints a rather different picture

[woofgang]

Mushroom did you actually READ the article? Students were paid a salary because the hours they would have done as CLINICAL placement were adjusted to give them more responsibility than they would otherwise have had because of the situation. Students are now expected to be returning to college to complete their training. Student nurses normally are not paid a salary for doing their clinical placements so the money they received was EXTRA to what would normally be paid and well deserved it was too. Students who still have hours to complete will continue to be paid a salary until september when the hours should be complete.
Speaking as an ex NHS clinical manager , the arrangements put in place to allow student and retired staff to go back to work with lapsed or incomplete qualifications were extraordinary and in normal circumstances, the responsibility for mistakes and accidents caused by this would be extreme and clinically unnacceptable. I am not surprised that the NHS want to end this situation, which would normally be an unnacceptable risk to patients, practitioners and their managers, as soon as is practicable.