General Article Debt-ridden students forced to cut back on food

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Students from the UK are on average £16,000 in debt after just one year at medical school, a major BMA survey has revealed.

First years are increasingly using commercial loans and credit cards to plug gaps and more than two thirds reported cutting back on food, heating and other essentials.

One first year, who had taken a degree in another subject before studying medicine, owed a staggering £84,500, and another was working more than 40 hours a week alongside studying in order to make ends m...

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