SCRAPPING the bursary for student nurses will wreck dreams and deepen the NHS staffing crisis, health workers warned at the weekend as they took to the streets against the Tory cut.

Around 500 NHS staff, students and supporters brought traffic to a standstill in Westminster on Saturday afternoon as they marched from St Thomas’ Hospital to the Department of Health.

And they were joined by fashion designer Dame Vivian Westwood, who accused the government of attempting to “sabotage” the welfare of nurses and the future of the NHS.