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Scholarship details
The NHS Learning Support Fund of £5,000 is available to a range of healthcare students, awarded by the government.
There are four elements to the NHS Learning Support Fund, and you may be entitled to all four depending on your personal circumstances:
- Training Grant of £5,000
- Parental Support of £2,000
- Travel and accommodation expenses
- The Exceptional Support Fund of up to £3,000.
Students on certain courses can get a Special Subject Payment, which is an extra £1,000. This will automatically be added onto your account and will be processed at the same time as your Training Grant application.
Payments will be made in three instalments throughout each academic year. Dates depend on when your course starts.
You can check when payments are due on your NHS LSF account.
To apply, you need to be:
- studying on an eligible course at a university in England
- actively studying, whether academic or practice learning
- eligible for tuition fees and maintenance support from the Student Loans Company, either through:
Student Finance England (SFE)
Student Finance Wales (SFW)
Student Awards Agency for Scotland (SAAS)
Student Finance Northern Ireland (SFNI)
If you’ve not applied for a student loan, you may still be eligible for NHS LSF. You’ll need to show us that you still meet the relevant eligibility criteria for SFE, SFW, SFNI or SAAS.
If you receive the NHS Bursary, you are not eligible for NHS LFS. Visit NHS Bursary students for more information about your bursary.
Eligible courses are the following courses at undergraduate or postgraduate:
- Adult Nursing
- Child Nursing
- Dental Hygiene & Dental Therapy
- Diagnostic Radiography
- Dietetics
- Mental Health Nursing
- Midwifery
- Operating Department Practice
- Occupational Therapy
- Paramedic Science
- Physiotherapy
- Speech and Language Therapy.
Please note: This award is not available to international students.
Create an NHS LSF account on the NHS website. You will only need to sign up once as you'll reapply on this account each year. Please do not apply on any other systems other than the NHS LSF website.
To register, you must have the following information:
email address
mobile number
date of birth
home address.
You must apply within six months of starting your course. We recommend you apply from March 2026 for 2026/27 entry.
For continuing students, you will receive a reminder email for reapplication.
Eligibility details
To apply, you need to be:
- studying on an eligible course at a university in England
- actively studying, whether academic or practice learning
- eligible for tuition fees and maintenance support from the Student Loans Company, either through:
Student Finance England (SFE)
Student Finance Wales (SFW)
Student Awards Agency for Scotland (SAAS)
Student Finance Northern Ireland (SFNI)
If you’ve not applied for a student loan, you may still be eligible for NHS LSF. You’ll need to show us that you still meet the relevant eligibility criteria for SFE, SFW, SFNI or SAAS.
If you receive the NHS Bursary, you are not eligible for NHS LFS. Visit NHS Bursary students for more information about your bursary.
Eligible courses are the following courses at undergraduate or postgraduate:
- Adult Nursing
- Child Nursing
- Dental Hygiene & Dental Therapy
- Diagnostic Radiography
- Dietetics
- Mental Health Nursing
- Midwifery
- Operating Department Practice
- Occupational Therapy
- Paramedic Science
- Physiotherapy
- Speech and Language Therapy.
Please note: This award is not available to international students.
Application process
Create an NHS LSF account on the NHS website. You will only need to sign up once as you'll reapply on this account each year. Please do not apply on any other systems other than the NHS LSF website.
To register, you must have the following information:
email address
mobile number
date of birth
home address.
You must apply within six months of starting your course. We recommend you apply from March 2026 for 2026/27 entry.
For continuing students, you will receive a reminder email for reapplication.
Eligible courses
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Last updated on 16 Jan 2026
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