There are a group of people who have good enough academics to get onto a nursing course but not to get onto a medicine course. It's just a smaller group now th

There are a group of people who have good enough academics to get onto a nursing course but not to get onto a medicine course. It's just a smaller group now than it once was because the requirements for nursing have gone up and the discrimination which prevented women from becoming doctors has all but disappeared. Layer onto that the impact of broader opportunities for women outside healthcare (meaning fewer who are able to are willing to go into nursing) and there's a double impact.