Skills labs could make up placement shortfall

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Professor Ieuan Ellis, chair of the Council of Deans of Health, said previous cuts in student numbers combined with cuts in services and staff meant nurses were "under more pressure to deliver patient care and at the same time provide supervision". "Managers will say 'I don't know whether we can cope with increases in student numbers at the moment, because I'm not sure where we're going to put them in terms of placements'," he said. "There's a bit of a Catch-22 situation. We need to train more students and need more placements, but part of the reason we need more students is because there's a shortage of staff. The message coming back [from nurses] is that it is challenging."