If your absence is due to a medically certified illness or injury, you may continue to receive your bursary during a period of authorised absence up to 60 days in an academic year.
For any sickness absence, you must have provided a fit note to your university written by your GP or another healthcare professional.
If your illness or injury needs more than 60 days leave in an academic year, you must tell us and your university as soon as possible.
Your NHS Bursary will be suspended from the 61st day of absence until you return to your course.
If during or after the 60-day period you tell us and your university you'll not be returning to the course, we'll withdraw the NHS Bursary award.
Pregnancy related illness
If you're absent due to a pregnancy related illness before the expected week of childbirth or before the agreed date you're due to take maternity absence and it's within 4 weeks of this date, this must be regarded as the start of the maternity absence.
The bursary will continue to be paid from this date.
Absence before the last 4 weeks must be treated as sickness absence.