Manage your NHS Bursary

If you already receive a bursary, we'll email you to invite you to reapply and let you know when the deadlines are.

• Invites are always sent by email with a letter attached.
• Check your junk mail regularly.

If you complete your online BOSS form and send in your supporting evidence and student coversheet within the deadline, your bursary payments will be in place for the start of the next academic year. If you miss the deadline, your payments will be delayed.

In all cases, we must receive your bursary application, including all your supporting evidence, within six months of the start of the academic year.

Don’t create a new BOSS account

It’s important that all continuing students use their current BOSS log in details to reapply and must not create a new BOSS account.

When we’ll invite you to reapply

Application windows Autumn 2017 (non-medical / dental continuing students)

Your bursary is paid into your bank account monthly on the third Friday of the month.

New students

You’ll receive your first bursary payment within 10 working days of us receiving confirmation that you have started your course (provided you sent us your application form and supporting information by the deadline).

Your first payment will be for two months’ worth of bursary and then the remaining payments will be paid on the third Friday of each month.

Continuing students

Provided we received your application within the deadline, your payments will not be disrupted and you'll continue to be paid on the third Friday of each month.

You can use the change of circumstances form in BOSS as soon as you have submitted an application.

The form can be used to tell us about:

• change of name
• change of address
• change of telephone number
• change of marital status (if already cohabiting prior to marriage)
• applying for a new childcare allowance claim if you did not apply on your main application, a paper BOSS CCA form will also be needed for this
• changes to childcare provider or cost during the academic year, a childcare reconciliation form will also be needed for this . If any of the new costs claimed are within a Childcare Reconciliation period that has already ended, you must also send receipts for that period
• a change in childcare arrangements – if you’re no longer paying for childcare, you need to give written confirmation giving the date that you last used the childcare provider
• amendments / additions to your dependant children
• amendments / additions to your own income / expenses