The other problems here, as the topic seems to have drifted to nurse's pay, is that it seems a stupid idea that it was made compulsory for them to have degrees and now bursaries have been withdrawn.

Most of the damage was done by Labour, even the current Labour leader admits this. "Labour should take responsibility for resolving “the mess” left behind by private finance initiative (PFI) deals used to fund the building of hospitals under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, Jeremy Corbyn has said. In an article for the Guardian, the Labour leadership frontrunner said the NHS is now paying the price for New Labour having been “cowed by the press, and duped by the money men” when it used private finance for building health projects. “Labour has a duty to remove the PFI burden from the NHS – this really was our mess, and we have to clear it up,” Corbyn said." "Labour must clean up the mess it made with PFI, and save the health service" Jeremy Corbyn

The NHS would be in a far better state if Gordon Brown hadn't introduced the horrendous PFI which means a lot of NHS money is paid out to private landlords.