Rejected petition To make it illegal to under fund or reduce funding to the NHS in future.

In the light of the current Pandemic it has been obvious that the NHS was under funded and lack the resources to meet the needs of patients during the early days of the CoVid 19; I believe that with the proper funding they would have been able to meet the challenge from day one.

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To put into legislation that the NHS should never again be underfunded or have funding removed or reduced and that it always has access to resources when needed.

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You may wish to sign some of these petitions:

Ensure continued Universal health cover by legally committing to a minimum spend: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/300925

Create a National Health Insurance Tax for the NHS: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/313361

Revoke the Health and Social Care Act 2012 and renationalise the NHS: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/300019

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/

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Date submitted 4 April 2020
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