You may be able to apply for NHS LSF if you’re studying on a pre-registration undergraduate or postgraduate healthcare course which leads to professional registration in:
- nursing including adult, child, mental health, learning disability, joint nursing and social work
- midwifery
- dietetics
- dental Therapy or Dental Hygiene level 5 and 6 courses
- occupational therapy
- orthoptics
- orthotics and prosthetics
- physiotherapy
- podiatry or chiropody
- radiography including diagnostic and therapeutic
- speech and language therapy
- operating department practitioner
- paramedicine, DipHE and FD courses are not eligible
From the 2025/26 academic year, if you’re studying undergraduate pharmacy or pre-registration healthcare science courses, you can claim reimbursement towards practice placement expenses through the Travel and Dual Accommodation Expenses (TDAE) element of NHS LSF. You will not be eligible for any of the other NHS LSF allowances.