This petition was submitted during the 2019-2024 parliament
Rejected petition to eradicate private agencies, moving all clinical staff onto NHSP and equal pay
All clinical staff, to have minimum contracted substantive post within the NHS, with access to additional shift through the NHS and not through expensive nursing agencies.
All/exclusively any additional shifts must be book through NHSP.
All private nursing agencies to be eradicated over time,
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maintain higher standard of care with all staff being substantively employed and up to date with practice. Ease pressure on substantive staff. Save the additional higher cost of agency staff, bring more nurses into the NHS and away form agencies, free up funds to increase nursing wage. make nursing a more attractive career (wages). Prevent agency staff working back to back shifts with different agencies. Transparency of practice, knowing who are staff are and understanding their skill base.
This petition was rejected
Why was this petition rejected?
It’s about something that the UK Government or Parliament is not directly responsible for.
Petitions must call for a specific action that the UK Government or Parliament is responsible for.
Decisions about using agency staff is an operational matter for the NHS, not the Government or Parliament. As a result it is not possible for the Government or Parliament to take the action you have requested.
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