This petition was submitted during the 2019-2024 parliament
Rejected petition Cancel student debts for doctors, nurses and front line health and care workers.
All outstanding debts from studying and training to become a front-line health professional, whether doctor, nurse, paramedic, ambulance driver, or other, should be forgiven in it’s entirety for all those who provide their skills to the country.
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Our front-line health workers have shown their willingness to put themselves in harms way, sometimes at the cost of their own lives, for the greater good. Society recognises that we owe a great debt to them for their selfless sacrifice and anyone willing to go into such dedicated service for us all should not be indebted to do so. The training of our front line health and care workers should be borne by society as a whole for the greater social good.
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You may wish to sign these petitions calling for the same action:
Reimburse nurses for student loans and fund all fees for future student nurses: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/302732
Write off all student loans for all NHS staff fighting COVID19: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/310559
Forgive student debt of all key workers after Pandemic crisis: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/307985
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/
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