Submitted on Monday 8th February 2021
Rejected on Friday 19th March 2021
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: no-action (see below for details)
Fund the National Health Service
Members of Parliament should come together and agree to immediately commit the extra £350m per week which informed the Brexit referendum decision to the core NHS. This being in addition to any specific funds currently allocated because of the Covid crisis*.
The core NHS is grossly underfunded and frontline staff continue to work excessively long hours. During the Covid crisis this has meant that many treatments designated as ‘non-urgent’ have been postponed. Proposals to give temporary additional support to staff during the Covid pandemic is just tinkering around the edges and is not sufficient. The NHS requires funds to enable it to recruit and train the optimum number of staff, working reasonable fulltime hours, in order to provide the health support that people need. *Any argument that additional funds are currently in place during the Covid crisis would be a fallacy because these additional funds would still have had to be allocated if the UK had not left the EU
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
Petitions need to call on the Government or Parliament to take a specific action.
You may be interested to know that the Government has introduced a new law that will increase funding for the NHS by £33.9 billion a year (in cash terms) by 2023/24. You can find out more here: services.parliament.uk/Bills/2019-21/nhsfunding.html. We're therefore not exactly sure what further action you'd like the Government or Parliament to take.
You could start a new petition explaining clearly what you would like the Government or Parliament to do. For example, you could start a new petition asking for the Government to increase NHS funding by an additional 33.9 billion, if that's something that you'd like to see.
You may wish to sign this petition instead: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/564512
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