The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC), Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC), Health Education England (HEE), the Council of Deans of Health, employers and unions worked together in March to agree special arrangements allowing students to spend more time in practice, in remunerated placements, to support health and social care services during the Covid-19 pandemic.
These arrangements are designed to be facilitative rather than directive so that universities are able to make changes to their programmes to enable students to contribute to supporting services while continuing with their education and placement hours.