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This petition was submitted during the 2019-2024 parliament

Rejected petition Fill this years Honours List with NHS Staff, emergency services Care Workers etc

Officially Recognise the huge effort and sacrifice that our nurses, doctors, emergency services, care workers and volunteers are doing during the current Coronavirus pandemic to help keep us all safe

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Year after year the honours list is headlined with Sportsmen/women, actors, politicians etc. These are exceptional times and I feel these exceptional people deserve official recognition

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It’s about honours or appointments.

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We have accepted petitions calling for the Government to award people working in essential occupations medals, which you might like to sign.

If you want the Government to award Covid-19 medals to all emergency services and involved armed forces, you may wish to sign this petition: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/302613

If you want the Government to create a medal to honour the fortitude of people working in essential occupations, you may wish to sign this petition: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/308035

You can find out more about coronavirus and how you can protect yourself and others here:

NHS website: https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/

UK Government website: https://www.gov.uk/coronavirus

You can read NHS tips to help if you are worried about coronavirus here: https://www.nhs.uk/oneyou/every-mind-matters/coronavirus-covid-19-anxiety-tips

You may also be interested to know that because of the large number of petitions that have been started in relation to coronavirus, the Petitions Committee has been questioning the Government about its response to the coronavirus outbreak.

Find out more and watch the Committee put questions suggested by petitioners to Government Ministers and the Deputy Chief Medical Officer: https://committees.parliament.uk/committee/326/petitions-committee/news/145767/committee-question-deputy-chief-medical-officer-and-ministers-on-coronavirus-response/

Read correspondence with Government Ministers asking further questions: https://committees.parliament.uk/committee/326/petitions-committee/publications/3/correspondence/

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