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Should Ireland introduce a nurses apprenticeship scheme?

A new NHS Workforce Apprenticeship Scheme plans to fix shortages of staff in the UK. A third of nurses could be trained through this vocational, more hands-on path, as soon as they finish up in school. With an ongoing crisis in our own healthcare system, is this something we should be looking at introducing here?

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11.50 12 May 2023


Should Ireland introduce a nurses apprenticeship scheme?


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11.50 12 May 2023


A new NHS Workforce Apprenticeship Scheme plans to fix shortages of staff in the UK. A third of nurses could be trained through this vocational, more hands-on path, as soon as they finish up in school.

With an ongoing crisis in our own healthcare system, is this something we should be looking at introducing here?


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