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<p>Until 1 August 2017, nursing, midwifery and allied health profession students had
their training costs largely borne by the NHS, and this was not affected by changes
to the wider higher education system.</p><p> </p><p>From 1 August 2017, most new undergraduate
healthcare students receive tuition fee loans and, for full-time courses, living costs
support, administered by the Student Loans Company. The former Department of Health
also confirmed that it would fund up to an additional 10,000 clinical placements to
support this expansion. These students are in their first year of university study.</p><p>
</p><p>These reforms to healthcare student funding will help secure the future supply
of nurses to the NHS by removing the artificial cap on training numbers in these professions,
and enabling thousands of additional UK applicants to gain a place to study nursing
at university.</p>
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