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Nursing to become graduate entry

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All new nurses in the UK from 2013 will have to spend at least three years being trained to degree level, the government has announced.

The move will help nurses meet the increasingly complex needs of patients more safely and effectively, it said.

Jon Kay reports.

READ MORE: Nursing to become graduate entry

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