Responding to the new government Graduate Guarantee plan to help newly qualified nurses find jobs, RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive Professor Nicola Ranger said:

“Our student members have led the way in calling for ministers and healthcare leaders to provide certainty and clarity on jobs. Today’s announcement is welcome news that should provide hope to students as they come towards the end of their education and training.

“When the health service urgently needs nursing staff, it was absurd to leave people in limbo. The test of this will be if students can find jobs, vacant posts are filled, and patients receive the care they deserve.

“Ministers have to continue listening to nursing staff who are crying out to have their critical work valued, today’s action takes us all a little closer.”

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