Non-RCN bursaries

As a nursing professional, you can apply for a range of scholarships. bursaries and other funding opportunities offered by organisations outside the RCN.

Barbers' Company Clinical Nursing Scholarship

As a clinical nurse, you can apply for a Barbers' Company Clinical Nursing Scholarship to help you undertake further education, research or a clinical project.

You can find out more on the University of East Anglia website.

Bevan Prize for Health and Wellbeing

As a person or organisation working to ensure equality of access and equality of health outcomes in the UK, you can apply or be nominated for a Bevan Prize for Health and Wellbeing.

Visit the Bevan Foundation website for more information.

Florence Nightingale Foundation Scholarships

As a registered nurse or midwife, you can apply for a Florence Nightingale Foundation Scholarship to help you expand your understanding of the nursing profession to the benefit of patient care.

You can find out more on the Florence Nightingale Foundation website.

Harkness Fellowships in Health Care Policy and Practice

As a mid-career professional, academic researcher, clinician, hospital or insurance manager, government policymaker or journalist from the UK and seven other countries, you can apply for a Harkness Fellowship. 

Fellows spend up to 12 months in the United States, working with leading US experts to study health care delivery reforms and critical issues on the health policy agenda in both the US and their home countries. Each fellowship will provide up to US$119,000 in support.

You can find out more on the Commonwealth Fund website.