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2013/14 HE Student Finance Assessing Eligibility Guidance letter from the appropriate NHS grants unit) before determining their eligibility for the reduced rate loan. Such students will be subject to the same eligibility criteria for loans as other students. They will therefore need to be under 60 on the relevant date (see regulations 69(1) and 70(1)). 11. It will not be necessary to go through the financial assessment process if the student is eligible only for the reduced rate of loan. Where an applicant has indicated that they are eligible to apply for an income assessed NHS or DOH Bursary, the system will calculate their entitlement to living costs support at the reduced rate. For further information see the General Administration eligibility and Assessment chapter. 12. Responsibility for handling student applications for bursaries is dependent on where the student studies, but the student should apply to SFE where he is ordinarily resident for a loan. For example, a student ordinarily resident in England who is studying at an institution in Wales would apply to Wales for an NHS bursary and to SFE for a loan. Further information on NHS eligibility rules can be found on the NHS website at: http://www.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/students 13. The following are details of the bodies providing NHS bursaries to students in the United Kingdom. England Wales Student Grants Unit The (NHS) Wales Student Awards Unit Hesketh House 3rd Floor 200-220 Broadway 14 Cathedral Street Fleetwood Cardiff Lancashire CF11 9LJ FY7 8SS Tel: 0845 358 6655 Tel: 029 2019 6167 email : nhs-sgu@ukonline.co.uk www.wales.nhs.uk Northern Ireland Scotland Department of Student Awards Agency for Scotland Employment and Learning Gyleview House, (DELNI) 3 Redheughs Rigg Student Support Branch South Gyle 4 th Floor, Adelaide House Edinburgh 39-49 Adelaide Street EH12 9HH Belfast BT2 8FD Tel: 0845 111 0243 www.saas.gov.uk Tel: 028 9025 7777 www.delni.gov.uk NHS Secondees 14. The Department of Health has confirmed that health care students who are employed by NHS trusts and seconded onto health care courses are not eligible for NHS bursaries. These students continue to receive their salary and have their tuition fees paid by the NHS. The payment of their fees is outside of the NHS bursary scheme. Version 1.8 76
2013/14 HE Student Finance Assessing Eligibility Guidance Such students, who receive assistance from the NHS only for their fees, are not excluded from the student support provisions and can therefore receive grants and loans for living costs on the same basis as other students, subject of course to their satisfying all the usual eligibility criteria. Further information is provided in „Update‟ Edition 63 (April 2004). 15. As seconded NHS employees will have their fees paid by the NHS, in order to prevent double funding of fee support, applications should be processed in the usual way through Protocol. However, when approving the application SFE should manually over-ride the tuition fee amounts and set them to zero. Setting the „public contribution to fees‟ box to zero will ensure the HEI is not paid a fees contribution by the SLC. Setting the „student contribution to fees‟ box to zero will ensure the HEI does not invoice the student for a contribution to fees. Version 1.8 77
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