Rejected petition Random drug testing on NHS staff

All NHS workers to be randomly drug tested

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our lives and well being are in the hands of Medical staff,Nurses, doctors.The NHS say that there is no need to be randomly tested .We need to have faith in the people that we are supposed to trust,why are they so against this proposal.The armed forces are randomly tested ,without much objection.There has been a few cases where doctors and nurses have been addicted to drugs . Because they are not randomly tested how many actually are users.For our own safety this needs to be done

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Why was this petition rejected?

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

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Decisions about drug and alcohol testing policies in NHS facilities are a matter for the NHS, not the UK Government or Parliament.

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Date submitted 15 March 2023
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