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3rd February 2012The Royal College of Nursing Scotland has said the Scottish Government's plans to reduce the number of nursing students by 10% in 2012-13 will affect the standard of patient care.
Theresa Fyffe, Director of RCN Scotland, said: "Year-on-year cuts like this are not sustainable. Last year we agreed, reluctantly, to a 12% cut in numbers for 2011-12, but all the evidence we’ve gathered shows that this further cut in numbers in 2012-13 risks there not being enough professionally qualified nurses graduating to meet the demand for health services in the future and that this cut will be bad for patient care."
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Title: RCN hits out at plans to cut nursing student members
Author:
Jess Laurence
Article Id: 20964
Date Added: 3rd Feb 2012
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