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That this House notes that, as part of the Government's health education funding reforms,
new students in England starting a nursing, midwifery or allied health professional
course can apply for financial support from the Learning Support Fund (LSF); regrets
that this does not extend to those students studying university paramedic courses;
believes that student paramedics face similar costs and should not be excluded from
accessing potential sources of financial support; further notes that in April 2018,
according to job vacancy figures, ambulance services in England were short of almost
1,000 staff; and therefore calls on the Government to allow student paramedics to
apply for support from the LSF as a way of tackling high attrition rates on paramedic
courses and improving the retention of student paramedics within the NHS workforce.
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