Most chancellors of the exchequer give with one hand and take with the other, but George Osborne hit nursing with a double whammy last week. First he announced that nursing students starting courses from 2017 will have to pay tuition fees, then added to the woe by revealing that they would not receive a bursary either. So the next generation of newly qualified nurses will start their careers on not much more than £21,000 and have debts that will take years to clear.