Rejected petition Abolish the registration fee for nurses with immediate effect

Abolish the annual registration fee nurses have to pay to do their job with immediate effect & repay the fees already paid for this year.

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In this unprecedented time where our nursing staff are going to work in the frontline of this dreadful pandemic, caring for critically ill patients with high potential of contracting the virus themselves and then paying a registration fee for the privilege. This should be abolished immediately, any fee already paid for this year should be refunded & no fee be required to be paid ever again.
Nurses can register without paying to do so.

This petition was rejected

Why was this petition rejected?

It’s about something that the UK Government or Parliament is not directly responsible for.

The level of registrations fees are a matter for independent regulators such as the General Medical Council and Nursing and Midwifery Council, and not the Government or Parliament.

We have published a petition calling on the Government to reimburse health care professionals for professional registration fees, which you might like to sign: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/307399

You could start a new petition calling on the Government to fund health regulators directly, so they do not need to charge a registration fee.

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 26 April 2020
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