Reconciling tariff hours in spreadsheets? Every few months, placement offices across England run the same exhausting cycle, which can look like: export placement data. Merge with timesheet records. Cross-check against placement provider figures by email. Reformat everything into the NHSE Placement Activity template. Upload. Hope the portal doesn't reject it. Repeat three more times before July. It works... just about. But it's three weeks of your placement team's time, every

A national data initiative helping universities spot emerging risk sooner, understand placement patterns more clearly, and act before disengagement becomes attrition. Every year, too many student nurses leave their programmes before qualifying. The reasons are complex, often personal, and frequently invisible to course teams until it is too late. Yet the early warning signs are there, hidden in the data that students and their supervisors generate every day through practice