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The latest idea to help solve the nursing crisis is paying students for their placements while they're training.
The Health Minister says it was put on the table earlier this year, with officials actively considering significant reforms.
Students currently have to complete 11-hundred hours of unpaid placements in ‘real’ clinical settings, but not all of that is in hospitals specifically.
Health Minister Andrew Little told Mike Hosking there's a bit more work to be done on it.
He says the attrition rate for nurses in their final nine weeks of placement is high and he wants to stop that happening.
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