"The beneficiaries of development funding have more often been the managerial elite rather than front-line nurses".
The effects of the internal market on the health service have been under constant scrutiny. But the market's impact on nurse education, while largely hidden, has been as dramatic if not as emotive. For colleges of nursing, the transition into the commercial world has been quick and painful. Many believe that the market poses a real threat to the future of the profession. Intake figures have dropped alarmingly, not because of any thorough examination of future supply needs, but through crude and inaccurate estimations by education commissioners.