Rejected petition Make NHS medical and healthcare staff the highest paid civil servants in the UK

The coronavirus and pressures on NHS highlight our national expectation of NHS staff to go above and beyond, even at risk of their lives. It should not have taken the coronavirus to highlight the importance. This petition is for NHS keyworkers (all categories of Medical, Healthcare and Paramedics).

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Remuneration and reward should be commensurate with the level of risk. Higher risk, higher reward.

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Why was this petition rejected?

There’s already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.

You are more likely to get action on this issue if you sign and share a single petition.

You may wish to sign some of these petitions:

Increase pay for NHS healthcare workers and recognise their work: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/300073

Give NHS staff a pay rise in line with MPs pay increase: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/313513

Pay rise for NHS and care staff: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/313488

Introduce a minimum starting wage of £40000 for all Nurses: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/315297

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: https://committees.parliament.uk/work/192/the-governments-response-to-coronavirus/

We only reject petitions that don’t meet the petition standards.

Date submitted 2 April 2020
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