Announcement regarding which AHP students will receive a £5,000 support payment each year
31st January 2020
If you’re a student studying to become a paramedic, radiographer or podiatrist, then good news, you’ll be among those receiving the new financial support from September 2020.
The full list of new and continuing students set to benefit from the funding is as follows:
- dental hygiene or dental therapy (level 5 courses)
- dietetics
- midwifery
- nursing (adult, child, mental health, learning disability, joint nursing/social work)
- occupational therapy
- operating department practitioner (level 5 courses)
- orthoptics
- orthotics and prosthetics
- paramedicine
- physiotherapy
- podiatry or chiropody
- radiography (diagnostic and therapeutic)
- speech and language therapy
This is the first time paramedic students will benefit from additional NHS funding while at university.
The funding will be provided on top of existing support, including student loans.
The government first announced the new funding in December 2019. It said that all new and continuing nursing, midwifery students and many allied health students on pre-registration courses at English universities will receive a £5,000 maintenance grant each year. They will not need to pay it back.
Extra payments worth up to £3,000 per academic year will be available for eligible students. Each year they could receive:
- £1,000 towards childcare costs
- £1,000 if studying in a region that is struggling to recruit
- £1,000 if they’re a new student studying a shortage specialism important to delivering the NHS Long Term Plan
The shortage specialisms have been confirmed as:
- mental health nursing
- learning disability nursing
- radiography (diagnostic and therapeutic)
- prosthetics and orthotics
- orthoptics and podiatry
For more information, please see the official announcement https://www.gov.uk/government/news/paramedic-students-will-get-5000-support-payment-each-year
For more information about the funding options available, please visit our funding page https://www.iseethedifference.co.uk/funding/
