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Madi Thank you for this - we were under the impression that NHS funded students were unable to get DSA-type funds so are very interested in this information. Please can we have a copy of the guidelines or an address where we can get them from? Thanks Liz T. At 05:41 11/12/97 -0500, you wrote: >We have recently been asked for clarification on the situation of nursing >students and the disabled student allowances(DSAs). >For those students who are funded through NHS bursaries: The NHS have >followed Department for Education and Employment guidelines for the DSAs >and so nursing students should be able to access DSAs on the same criteria >as students funded through local education authorities. >If anyone is having difficulties getting adequate DSAs out of the NHS, do >contact Skill as we have written to the NHS and have received copies of the >guidelines. >Nursing students should apply to DSAs through their training institution, >who will arrange funding with the local health authority. It is very >important that the training institutions receive full details of the claim >at an early date, so that all funding information can go to the Student >Grants Unit together. >Skill also has information about future funding arrangement for NHS funded >students, so do contact us if you need clarification. > >We've also been asked to put our e-mail details on dis-forum, so here they >are: > >[log in to unmask] >or >[log in to unmask] > >Do contact us if you have any queries. > > >Madi Bliss (Information Assistant) > > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%