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Compensate families of NHS staff killed by COVID19 same as police killed on duty

Submitted on Sunday 12th April 2020

Rejected on Thursday 28th May 2020

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

Petition Action

Compensate families of NHS staff killed by COVID19 same as police killed on duty

Petition Details

To ensure that the families of all grades of NHS staff, who get infected and die of COVID-19 as a result of carrying out their duties, get the same compensation as police officers killed while on duty.

Additional Information

It is important that their sacrifice is properly recognised by the state.


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This petition was rejected

The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:

There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.

You are more likely to get action on this issue if you sign and share a single petition.

You may wish to sign this petition calling for the same action: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/307592

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www.gov.uk/coronavirus
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You can read impartial analysis of the Government response to coronavirus and policy developments here: commonslibrary.parliament.uk/coronavirus/

You may also be interested to know that because of the large number of petitions that have been started in relation to coronavirus, the Petitions Committee has been questioning the Government about its response to the coronavirus outbreak.

Find out more: committees.parliament.uk/work/192/the-governments-response-to-coronavirus/

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