"As registered nurses for the NHS, it’s been a real pleasure to be a part of this joint work with UCAS. This report gives us valuable insights into our nurses of the future – who they are, what they believe and their motivations for choosing this worthwhile profession that we’ve been proud to call our own for so long.
The insights from this work will support us, and our partners in the health and care system, to continue to build a nursing workforce that is highly skilled, critically thinking, and with the right values. Capturing the views of those starting out in their nursing career is crucial to this because they are the future of this profession."
Dr Ruth May, Chief Nursing Officer for England & Professor Mark Radford CBE, Chief Nurse, Health Education England, and Deputy Chief Nursing Officer for England