I am one of many who feels strongly about the lack of financial help with childcare costs for nursing students in Northern Ireland (letters January 31, February 7). Why should these parents have to juggle a full-time nursing course, working 42.5 hours a week on placement in hospitals, and then have to work another 16 hours or more a week to be entitled to some help through child tax credits? Nursing students in the rest of the UK get a better deal.
Nursing Standard. 21, 26, 32-32. doi: 10.7748/ns.21.26.32.s43
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