the nhs bursary scheme review
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The NHS Bursary Scheme Review
• Review announced June 2008 in ‘A High Quality Workforce: NHS Next Stage Review’
• Commitment to review the anomaly between diploma and degree nurses
• Opportunity to consider other changes to improve the scheme
• Aims to create a fair system for students that ensures a reasonable level of support is provided and continues to attract high quality students from a diverse range of backgrounds
• Led by key stakeholders on a Steering Group with representation from:– Trade unions (UNISON, RCN, BMA, RCM, Society of Radiographers
and NUS)– Higher Education– NHS– Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
Background
NHS Bursary Scheme: Supporting our future NHS workforceThe Steering Group has developed a series of options for the future of NHS student support which have been assessed against the aims of the review. The consultation seeks views on each of the options.
Section one: The review so far
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Context
Chapter 3 Evaluation criteria and evidence
Chapter 4 Case studies
Section two: Options for future NHS student support
Chapter 5 Guidance on options
Chapter 6Options which would not increase costs
Chapter 7Options which would increase costs
Section three: Other issues for consultation
Chapter 8 Medical and dental students
Chapter 9 Other issues
The consultation
Chapter Plan
The options
Option 2 – Providing a means tested bursary and a non-means tested loan
Option 3 – Providing a non means tested bursary
Option 4 – Moving all healthcare students to the same scheme as other (non-healthcare) students
Option 1 – Retaining the current system
Option 5 – Employing all healthcare students on the minimum wage
Background information
• Current System:– All medical students on 5 & 6 year courses receive a student loan
from the Student Loans Company (SLC) for the first 4 years of study.
– From the fifth and any subsequent years, these students enter the NHS bursary scheme and the NHS pays their tuition fees. The loan they receive is a reduced rate loan, set at the current rate for NHS funded students.
• Budgets:– Funding for bursaries is part of the Department of Health’s Multi-
Professional Education and Training (MPET) budget. Student loan funding is part of the Department for Business Innovation and Skills (BIS) maintenance loan budget, administered by the SLC.
– Any increase in the amount of loan available, as a result of changes to the bursary scheme, would have to be met by a reallocation of funding from the DH to BIS.
Option 1 – Retaining the current scheme
•From the fifth year of their degree course, medical and dental students enter the NHS bursary scheme
•Students on graduate entry programmes enter the scheme from the second year of their course and are able to apply for the same support as other healthcare degree students
•The NHS pays tuition fees for students for the years they are included in the NHS Bursary Scheme.
•All students can apply for a NHS student level loan and a means tested bursary is available.
Means tested bursary, maximum £4,388
Student loan, £2,210
Maximum support: £6,598
Non means tested loan (NMT)
Means tested loan (MT)
Non means tested bursary (NMT)
Means tested bursary (MT)
Option 2 – Providing a means tested bursary and a non-means tested loan
Option 2c •Loan at current rate for non-NHS funded students •means tested bursary.
MT - Bursary
£5,250
MT - Bursary
£4000
NMT – Bursary £1000Student Loan £4,510
MT - Bursary
£3150
Option 2b •Non means tested bursary of £1000 for all students •means tested bursary•non means tested loan.
Option 2a •Increased means tested bursary •non means tested loan.
NHS Student Loan £2,210
Maximum support: £7,460
Maximum support: £7,210
Maximum support: £7,660
NHS Student Loan £2,210
Non means tested loan (NMT)
Means tested loan (MT)
Non means tested bursary (NMT)
Means tested bursary (MT)
Option 2 – Providing a means tested bursary and a non-means tested loan
*Option 2e •Loan at current rate for NHS funded students
•means tested bursary to bring student income up to rowntree level– additional cost of £240m.
* Outside the financial envelope
*Option 2d •Loan at current rate for non-NHS funded students
•means tested bursary to bring student income up to rowntree level – additional cost of £220m.
Means tested bursary, maximum £6,400
Student Loan £4,510
Student Loan £2,210
Means tested bursary, maximum £8,700
Non means tested loan (NMT)
Means tested loan (MT)
Non means tested bursary (NMT)
Means tested bursary (MT)
Option 3 – Providing a non-means tested bursary
NMT - Bursary
£5,950
Option 3a
•A non means tested bursary
•No student loan
Non means tested loan (NMT)
Means tested loan (MT)
Non means tested bursary (NMT)
Means tested bursary (MT)
*Option 3 – Providing a non-means tested bursary
NMT - Bursary £6,350
NMT - Bursary £10,950
*Option 3b •All students eligible for a fixed rate non-means tested bursary
•No student loan
•Bursary set at the current rate for diploma students – additional cost of £30m.
*Option 3c •Bursary set at a level sufficient to bring student income up to the Rowntree level.
•Bursary would be significantly more than the maximum means tested bursary currently available.
– additional cost of £340m
* Outside the financial envelope
Non means tested loan (NMT)
Means tested loan (MT)
Non means tested bursary (NMT)
Means tested bursary (MT)
*Option 4 – Moving all healthcare students to the same scheme as other students
• All NHS funded students treated in the same way as non-NHS funded students studying for other courses in higher education
•NHS would continue to pay all tuition fees:
-students eligible for a means tested grant provided by Local Education Authority
-students eligible for a loan, the first 72 per cent of which is not means tested
•Additional cost £260- 280 million.
* Outside the financial envelope
MT Grant £2,765
Student Loan £4,510
(first 72% NMT)
Student Loan £79 p/w
Additional means tested loan of 79 p/w for course over 30 weeks
Non means tested loan (NMT)
Means tested loan (MT)
Non means tested bursary (NMT)
Means tested bursary (MT)
*Option 5 – Employing all healthcare students on the minimum wage
•Students would receive a salary while they were studying for the years they are currently eligible to apply for an NHS bursary
•Students would not be eligible for a student loan
•Additional cost of £840 million
* Outside the financial envelope
Salaried £9,005
(18-21 year old)
Salaried £10,805
(22 years and over)
Non means tested loan (NMT)
Means tested loan (MT)
Non means tested bursary (NMT)
Means tested bursary (MT)
Key:
5
£10,805
1 2a 2c2b 2e2d 3a 3b 3c 4
£6,598 £7,460
£7,210
£7,660£10,910
£10,910
£5,950
£6,350
£10,950
£7,783
£££ - Within financial envelope
£££ - Outside financial envelope
Options Overview
Medical and dental students chapter
Background
•In medicine participation from the 3 lowest socio economic groups is made up of approximately 11 per cent of students in total
The proposal
•Aims to provide support for students from the lowest socio-economic groups by including them within the NHS Bursary Scheme for the duration of their degree
•Details of arrangements are yet to be fully developed. It is likely that approximately 10% of medical and dental students would be eligible (equivalent to those from the lowest 3 socio economic groups)
•Estimated to cost between £4 - £9 million a year
Timetable of events
Medical SchoolDate/time Time and Place
Liverpool 19-Oct 18:00
Newcastle 19-Oct 19.00 - Dental Lecture theatre (TBC)
Southampton 20-Oct
Glasgow 21-Oct 14:30 - 18:30; Project Room 4
Edinburgh 22-Oct 15.30 Lecture theatre RHSC
Nottingham 22-Oct 18.00, B89
St Andrews 22-Oct 18.00 - Room 3, Bute Annexe
HYMS 23-Oct14:00 - 16:00 Hull Uni Loxley building first floor meeting room
Imperial 26-Oct 18:30
Manchester 26-Oct 18.00 - Stopford Common Room
UCL 26-Oct 18.00 - Seminar room 1 in cruciform building
Barts & The London 27-Oct 18.00 Room 1.29, Garrod Building (whitechapel)
UEA 28-Oct
Leeds 29-Oct 18.30 - Medical Teaching Centre
Sheffield 03-Nov 19:00
Bristol 09-Nov 19.00 - 21.00 DHB, Bristol Royal Infirmary
Oxford 12-Nov
Aberdeen 04-Nov 13.00 - 16.00
