Rejected petition Scrap the registration fee doctors & nurses have to pay yearly to do their job

Every year doctors and nurses have to pay a fee in order to change continue their registration to work. This varies in price but my wife is a nurse and has to pay £120 every year just to do her job!

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I feel it is, as I am sure many other will, unfair, especially with all the risks and dangers they out themselves in everyday, that they should have to pay to work. If they didn’t do this they would lose their registration and would no longer be able to work.
In the present climate I think it would be a good token of appreciation to abolish this fee forever !

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.

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Date submitted 3 April 2020
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