EXCLUSIVE The UK’s nursing students are facing mounting money worries despite holding down part-time jobs, as Adele Waters reports
Nurses in the UK are racking up a collective debt of £222 million before they qualify, new figures suggest. An RCN survey of more than 600 students across the UK found an average debt among first years of £2,787. By their final year they owed an average of £4,425.
Nursing Standard. 19, 50, 14-17. doi: 10.7748/ns2005.08.19.50.14.c3939
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