title: An expensive occupation.
abstract: Anything that puts people into debt and deters them from training cannot be good. So it was alarming to hear chancellor George Osborne's announcement that the publicly funded bursary is to be scrapped, and that future nursing students will have to take out loans to cover tuition fees and living expenses.
mesh_terms: D004506:Education, Nursing / Q000191:economics*; D005382:Financing, Personal; D013222:State Medicine; D013338:Students, Nursing; D006113:United Kingdom