Lincoln County Hospital runs one of more than 50 nurse cadet schemes in the UK offering a non-academic route into professional training.
Many cadets then go into pre-registration courses.
Today a seminar is being held on the future of nurse cadets with a view to increasing the number of schemes in Trent and the UK as a whole. Mr Denham said he hoped there would be more than 2,000 nurse cadets in the NHS in three years time - over double the current number. We are committed to expanding the NHS and making it a better place to work. But this is not solely about boosting numbers. Nurse cadet schemes are an excellent way of doing this.