Experts at Kingston University’s School of Nursing are welcoming a nationwide report which shows an increased interest in the profession.

Around 29,000 students chose nursing when applying to university last year according to report authors UCAS and Health Education England.

That’s an increase of more than 28% on the year before the pandemic in 2019.

The heads of the university’s nursing department are attributing the increase to widespread media coverage of the jobs nurses do.