Gavin Newlands, SNP MP for Paisley and Renfrewshire North, has celebrated the work of nursing staff in the UK and around the world at an event in the UK Parliament. At the event in parliament, Gavin Newlands MP, met frontline nurses as part of the RCN’s International Nurses’ Day celebrations on Wednesday 25 April. The event, in Parliament, provided nurses with the opportunity to speak directly to MPs about the range of issues that they experience in the daily working lives. N

Gavin Newlands, MP for Paisley and Renfrewshire North, has welcomed the announcement from the First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, that the SNP Scottish Government are committed to preserving free tuition and the student bursary for all eligible trainee nurses and midwives. The First Minister told delegates at the Royal College of Nursing Congress in Glasgow that the Scottish Government will retain the bursary support package for eligible nursing and midwifery students in Scotlan

Gavin Newlands, the MP for Paisley and Renfrewshire North, challenged the Chancellor of the Exchequer over the UK Government’s £826 million worth of cuts to bursaries for nurses today in the House of Commons. George Osborne, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, announced the swingeing cuts to the support for nurses in his Autumn Statement. The UK Government intends to cut bursaries and replace the vital support with loans – saddling nurses with debt and deterring a future generat