This petition was submitted during the 2019-2024 parliament
Rejected petition Install contactless card readers at hospitals so people can donate to the NHS.
Provide and install contactless card readers, to provide people with an easy way of donating to the NHS. Putting the card readers in visible places at Doctors' Surgeries, Hospitals and anywhere else that would help NHS.
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To install a system so people who have just been helped by the NHS are easily enabled to make a donation if they wish.
Thereby providing an additional opportunity to provide much needed resources to help the NHS for all benefits and to show ongoing appreciation and gratitude to the NHS and its staff.
This petition was rejected
Why was this petition rejected?
It’s about something that the UK Government or Parliament is not directly responsible for.
Making any arrangements to accept donations at hospitals would be a matter for the NHS and individuals hospitals, not the Government or House of Commons.
We have published a number of petitions calling for the Government to protect or increase funding for the NHS, which you might like to sign:
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
Raise the rate of income tax and corporation tax to fund the NHS: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/313995
Revoke the Health and Social Care Act 2012 and renationalise the NHS: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/300019
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