Changes in circumstances for medical and dental students

The NHS Bursary in England, NHS Wales and Student Finance England all have similar but slightly different rules and ways of applying for extension funding. All three authorities allow for an additional year of funding to cover one repeat year. 

If you are in study years 1–4 and this would be your first repeat year with no previous study, you should be entitled to funding from Student Finance England. You will apply for the repeat year you will be studying and the University will confirm this with Student Finance England.

Find out more about how changes in your circumstances may affect your funding from Student Finance.

If you were about to progress into your fifth year of study and apply to the NHS Bursary, you will no longer be able to do this and will need to apply to Student Finance for the repeat year funding.

You cannot use the NHS Bursary for a repeat year for your first year of funding with them. 

If you have already received a year of funding and then need to repeat a year, the NHS Bursary allows for a maximum of one extra year of extension funding.

You will need to apply to the NHS Bursary letting them know the year you are repeating and the University will send a BUR102 on your behalf to the NHS Bursary to request that extension.

NHS Wales will allow an extension of funding in exceptional circumstances, but you will need to put your case of exceptional circumstances to them.

The Funding team will arrange for a BUR103 to be completed and signed off by your School and any supporting evidence from yourself will need to be supplied.

The University will send the form and the evidence to NHS Wales.

If you suspend your study or withdraw within the first four years of your course,  you will have been receiving your funding from Student Finance England. 

Find out more about how changes in your circumstances may affect your funding from Student Finance.

If you suspend your studies while receiving funding from the NHS Bursary then you must let them know as soon as possible to prevent over-payment. 

Medical or Dental students may continue to receive their NHS Bursary during periods of authorised absence due to a medically certified illness or injury of up to 60 days in an academic year.

The University will email a form BUR101W  to the NHS Bursary to confirm the temporary withdrawal. 

If you suspend your study while receiving funding from NHS Wales then you must let them know as soon as possible to prevent over-payment. 

Find out more about how changes in your circumstances may affect your funding from Student Finance.

The Funding team cannot send a Resumption of Study form until you have actually returned to the University.  

When you resume after any period of withdrawal, regardless of the length, you must reapply for all elements of your bursary.

The only exception to this is if you resume within the same academic or study year and onto the same cohort, you would not need to reapply for the basic award, however you will need to reapply for any additional allowances such as Childcare Allowance.

If you experience a reduction in your parental, spouse or partner’s income of 15% or more when compared to the previous financial year, you can apply for a current year assessment. 

To do so, click the link from your BOSS account home page under ‘Download Current income Assessment form’