You must complete an NHS Bursary application for the payment of tuition fees even if you do not want to apply for an NHS Bursary.
If you're approved for NHS Bursary funding, we pay a tuition fee contribution direct to your university.
If you intercalate at a different university to where you usually study, we'll pay your intercalation university the tuition fees.
You must be in attendance up to and including 1 December of the relevant academic year to be eligible.
If you withdraw from your course before this date, you must pay any tuition fee costs incurred yourself.
Universities can send invoices to us from 1 December.
Once an invoice is received, payment will be made within 20 working days.
Tuition fees rates
The tuition fee award is not subject to an income assessment.
If you're studying on a course other than medicine or dentistry and you're still supported by the NHS Bursary rather than mainstream student loans, your tuition fees are a matter for Health Education England (HEE). The NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA) has no involvement with fee payments for non-medical or dental students.
If you're eligible and studying an NHS funded year of a Medical or Dental course, it will depend on the type of course you're studying as to how much we'll contribute.
We would pay up to £9,250 for pre-registration, undergraduate courses lasting 5 or more years, including any integral foundation or intercalating years at bachelor or masters degree level.
We'll pay up to £3,715 or £3,925 in Northern Ireland for shortened or accelerated pre-registration, graduate-entry courses.
If you're in your final year and your attendance is 15 weeks or less, we'll pay fees up to £4,625.
We'll pay up to £4,625 for any eligible academic year of an international course where the periods of study at the UK university are no more than 10 full time weeks or 30 part time weeks, excluding holidays.
If a university has chosen to charge a higher tuition fee contribution, you'll be expected to meet any balance in excess of this amount yourself.