This petition was submitted during the 2019 to 2024 Parliament
Rejected petition Help the NHS paramedics get extra resource in a constructive way
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Re-purpose paramedics to help people with ailments and COVID19 by giving the ambulance driving jobs to unemployed drivers by trade and free up the paramedics to provide the medical attention.
This will allow more paramedics to help people and provide jobs to unemployed drivers
Why was this petition rejected?
It’s about something that the UK Government or Parliament is not directly responsible for.
The staffing of ambulance services is an operational decision for individual ambulance services, and not the Government or Parliament.
You could start a new petition calling on the Government to provide additional funding to ambulance services, to enable them to increase capacity during the current outbreak, but the Government has already said the NHS will get whatever resources they need to cope with coronavirus.
You can find out more about coronavirus and how you can protect yourself and others here:
www.gov.uk/coronavirus
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/The Government has also created an online service to help you out what you can do if you’re struggling because of coronavirus: https://www.gov.uk/find-coronavirus-support
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 can read impartial analysis of the Government response to coronavirus and policy developments here: https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/coronavirus/
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 letters asking further questions of Government Ministers: https://committees.parliament.uk/committee/326/petitions-committee/publications/3/correspondence/We only reject petitions that don’t meet the petition standards.