HEE today insisted payments for third-year nurses' placements would continue to September - if they still had "hours to complete". Health Secretary Matt Hancock added it was "wrong to suggest student nurses and midwives are being redundant." It said placements that hadn't yet reached 12 weeks would continue through August, but that "all paid placements will stop" on August 31. “All student nurses and midwives are required to complete placements during their training. "To be clear it is absolutely untrue to suggest that student nurses and midwives are being made redundant, all student nurses and midwives are required to complete placements during their training.

Source: Daily Mirror June 17, 2020 15:56 UTC