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• Free degrees for Victorian nurses could cause workforce shortages elsewhere, unions warn

  29-08-2022 19:30
  Australian nursing and midwifery groups say Victoria’s scheme could see aspiring nurses leave their home statesGet our free news app, morning email briefing or daily news podcastFree university degrees for budding nurses in Victoria could exacerbate nationwide workforce shortages and pit states against each other, unions and peak bodies have warned.The Victorian government on Sunday announced plans to pay the entire HECS debt of more than 10,000 nursing and midwifery graduates. Under the $
  
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• ‘A horrible winter lies ahead’: next PM will inherit an NHS on its knees

  29-08-2022 13:00
  
  Experts say Tory leadership rivals appear not to have grasped the scale of the crisis facing the serviceFrom crime to the courts: the biggest issues the UK’s new PM will faceIn a television studio in Stoke-on-Trent last month, Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak traded blows over everything from credit card economics to Channel migrants to the accessories chain Claire’s. The list of issues the pair clashed over was dizzyingly long.There was one glaring omission, however. In the hour-long debat
  
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