Earn-and-learn scheme to train nurses as doctors

Nurses could train to become doctors by doing “part-time degrees” under proposals to increase the number of medics in the NHS.

Health officials yesterday said they were looking at ways to encourage nurses, physiotherapists and pharmacists already working in the NHS to train to become doctors while they earned.

Professor Ian Cumming, head of Health Education England, said “the concept of part-time medical degrees” was among a number of ideas under discussion, Pulse magazine reported.