‘Trainee nurses should not need to have degrees’, says Yorkshire MEP

Jacqui Martin. They might also wanted to think about supported housing for nurses. If you come out of a degree with £27,000 of debt and a starting salary of just over £25,000, how you manage to get a mortgage or even a decent rental is beyond me.

Nicky Cullum. Research from around the world shows that the more nurses with degrees in the system, the fewer patients who die unnecessarily. Care is much more complicated than when many of us trained.

Pauline Rigby. The best training was on-the-job training which went downhill when Project 2000 came in, then degree courses. I have had staff nurses from university who have never given an injection.

Mary Walker. Teach them on site. Bring back the Schools Of Nursing within the hospitals.

Lindsey Coulson. If they insist on a degree, at least let their tuition fees be free and help with living costs/travel expenses to placements – from a mother whose daughter is about to start her nursing degree this autumn.

Luke Senior. Perhaps the profession might be more attractive if new entrants can start earning immediately at age 18, rather than saddling themselves with a house deposit worth of debt that they’ll have to repay?

Susan Millwood. We don’t need people with a degree, we need those with common sense, a caring nature and commitment – just like before!

Pauline Cheshire. Bring back the ‘School of Nursing’ within the hospital run by Sister Tutor with three intakes a year, so enabling students to have continual learning on the wards and improving numbers available to staff the wards.

Margaret Havenhand. What this Government is doing to our education system is a national disgrace. Will nobody in Parliament oppose them? We are going backwards at a rate of knots!

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Janet Garwood. They are a bloody nuisance, especially in parks.