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Petition Ensure all healthcare students are paid while on NHS placements

To consider at the very minimum an apprentice style wage for students in the healthcare profession. Due to understaffing, students are having to make up numbers and have less contact time with their mentors, we are working rather than learning.

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Student Paramedics and nurses normally work 37.5 hours a week (and often 48 hours recently due to waiting times at hospitals) when on placement . For many, this leaves no time to make any money from work, which can make it unaffordable for many people to undertake a degree in the health profession. Healthcare students complete on average 2,300 hours of placement and contribute hugely to teams across our national health services. Despite this, we are still regarded as supernumerary.

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Share your views on pay and financial support for healthcare students

The MPs on the Petitions Committee have scheduled a debate on three petitions:

Ensure student nurses are paid for placement hours

Extend 30 hours free childcare to student midwives/nurses/paramedics

Minimum wage pay for all healthcare students for placement hours worked!

Marsha de Cordova MP, a member of the Committee, will open the debate, which will take place on Monday 11 September.

Share your views

To inform the debate, we would like to hear from you about your experiences and views on pay and financial support for healthcare students.

You can share your views with us by completing this survey: https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=nt3mHDeziEC-Xo277ASzSpMLsAawCSdBvMh9cdt5o9ZURTFYREk3MlNGTEhFNDE4OEczODlTWUVBNC4u

The survey will close on Tuesday 29 August at 10am.

Your responses will be anonymous. A summary of responses will be published on the Parliament website. It will also be shared with MPs and may be referred to in the debate or within other parliamentary documents. Please don't share anything that may identify you.

Watch the debate

The debate will take place on Monday 11 September at 4.30pm.

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