It would seem that the Nursing and the Midwifery Council have announced that they are going to be introducing the standards so that they can allow any final year students the chance to undertake a clinical placement. This is going to account for up to 100% of their programme given the spike in COVID cases. The NMC have stated that these standards have been available to use in every UK country but they are not mandatory to the region, institution, student and country. This comes after a lot of different processes have been implemented and this saw the second and third year students invited to various paid placements all across the UK.

Wales and even Scotland have all decided that their final year students will carry on as normal and they are not going to be an option of having a paid placement. In England, they have confirmed that they are in fact going to be reintroducing paid placements for student nurses. This is welcomed by some, but who knows what the future holds for the industry.