Rejected petition Prioritise NHS workers for medical care

By prioritising NHS workers to get early treatment they can get back to work earlier and help reduce the waiting lists which are impacted by staff shortages. In Covid, NHS workers were prioritised for vaccines so it has already been recognised the importance of supporting the health of NHS workers.

More details

Staff shortages impact on other staff causing excessive workloads and pressure which adds to the sickness levels. It is imperative that NHS workers are off work for the least time to enable other patients to be treated as soon as possible. The cost to the NHS for sickness would be reduced and could go towards recruitment to even further reduce waiting lists. Staff are waiting many months for treatment so recovery takes longer when they could have been treated and back to work helping patients

This petition was rejected

Why was this petition rejected?

It's about something that is an operational decision for a governmental or parliamentary body.

The proposal in this petition would be an operational matter managed by the NHS.

We only reject petitions that don’t meet the petition standards.

Date submitted 11 August 2025
Get petition data (json format)

About petition data

The data shows the number of people who have signed the petition by country as well as in the constituency of each Member of Parliament. This data is available for all petitions on the site. It is not a list of people who have signed the petition. The only name that is shared on the site is that of the petition creator.