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Cancel student debt for student nurses and doctors now working due to Covid 19.

Submitted on Saturday 25th April 2020

Rejected on Tuesday 28th April 2020

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

Petition Action

Cancel student debt for student nurses and doctors now working due to Covid 19.

Petition Details

Student nurses and 4th and 5th year medical students are working in hospitals and other healthcare settings as a result of Covid 19. Their student loan debts should be cancelled.

Additional Information

Billions have been promised to businesses and self-employed people to help them through this crisis. The same ssupport should be given to student nurses and medical students have been thrust into the frontline to support the NHS in time of need. Their work at this difficult time must be recognised, and their student loan debts cancelled.


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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 these petitions calling for the same action:

Reimburse nurses for student loans and fund all fees for future student nurses: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/302732

Write off all student loans for all NHS staff fighting COVID19: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/310559

Forgive student debt of all key workers after Pandemic crisis: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/307985

You can find out more about coronavirus and how you can protect yourself and others here:

www.gov.uk/coronavirus
www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/

The Government has also created an online service to help you out what you can do if you’re struggling because of coronavirus: www.gov.uk/find-coronavirus-support

You can read NHS tips to help if you are worried about coronavirus here: www.nhs.uk/oneyou/every-mind-matters/coronavirus-covid-19-anxiety-tips

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 and watch the Committee put questions suggested by petitioners to Government Ministers and the Deputy Chief Medical Officer: committees.parliament.uk/committee/326/petitions-committee/news/145767/committee-question-deputy-chief-medical-officer-and-ministers-on-coronavirus-response/

Read letters asking further questions of Government Ministers: committees.parliament.uk/committee/326/petitions-committee/publications/3/correspondence/

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