Posted on February 4th 2025
Last week, Cardiff University announced it will close its School of Nursing due to a funding shortfall. Dr Iain Armstrong, a Consultant Nurse in PH and Chair of the PHA UK, said:
“I was shocked and deeply disappointed to learn that a high-performing nursing school with over 1000 students will shut – at a time when we are desperate for more nurses right across the UK.
With 2,000 current nursing vacancies across Wales this feels like a crazy decision that will damage an already fragile and depleted workforce, and it simply must not set a precedent for other universities to do the same.
I have been a nurse for 40 years, with 30 of them spent in pulmonary hypertension, and this profession is the backbone of the NHS. It is absolutely vital that we invest in training and recruiting more people into what is a hugely rewarding career, yet instead, we see the imminent closure of a training facility with a long and successful record.
I have signed the petition to urge Cardiff University to reconsider its devastating decision and I implore everyone in our PH community who has been touched by nursing care to do the same.”
