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Two songs produced by NHS staff have gone on sale in a bid for the prestigious festive top spot. Dr Harriet Nerva, from Queen's Park London, started the campaign #NHS4XmasNo1 in October through Facebook and Twitter. Her social media pages support the combination of ‘Bridge over troubled water’ and ‘Fix you’ by Coldplay. The song is performed by Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Choir, a group that includes nurses, physiotherapists, porters, doctors and administrators. The 26 year-old junior doctor has asked that people wait until Friday 19 December to download it, despite the song's availability on iTunes. This will mean that sales will count towards the Christmas chart. Speaking to Westminster World she said: “It’s a really beautiful track and it’s a fantastic celebration of the work

Trainee nurses are gearing up to stage a mass protest against the government's 2017 decision to scrap NHS bursaries. Scheduled for 9th January 2016, the protest march aims at putting pressure on authorities to rethink their plan to replace bursaries with student loans come September 2017. The announcement came as part of Chancellor George Osborne's Autumn statement last month. He stated that in 2017, the NHS bursaries currently being paid to trainee nurses will be converted into loans that students would need to repay once they start formally earning from practice. Among the recommended changes is also a fee restructure, which would require student nurses to cough up an annual tuition fee of £9000. This will be a first for trainee nurses, and it could amount to £50,000 in debt

Two NHS choirs set to battle it out for Christmas number one.

NHS trainee nurses to protest against tuition fee changes