Liberating the NHS could herald a new beginning for health visitors and school nurses – professions that have been battered by cutbacks over the past five years.
The loss of health visiting as a legally defined occupation has been a calamity for the profession and for the UK’s child protection and safeguarding policies.
We are asking the government to rethink its decision to end student NHS bursaries in favour of student loans. We think it is short-sighted and self-defeating – if we...