Rejected petition Provide NHS staff with a long lasting reward for their fight against Corona.

Significantly increase the salary of medical workers ensuring that the increase feeds through to improving their pensions, and provide financial compensation to families and dependents of those who died fighting the virus, just as if they were soldiers in war.

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The actions carried out by medical staff are massively more than their normal roles and is much more akin to the dangers met when fighting a war. The pandemic has laid bare society's gross under valuing of the medical staff, and these people are now risking their lives.

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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

Fund increased death in service benefits for NHS staff who die during Covid-19: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/307592

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 find 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 9 April 2020
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