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Pay student nurses for their placement hours

Submitted on Monday 7th March 2022

Rejected on Monday 14th March 2022

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

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Pay student nurses for their placement hours

Petition Details

We’re often working 37.5+ hours a week to make up the 2300 hours of placement we have to complete to qualify. Though yes we are still learning and being taught how to do things, we’re learning on the job. Just like we would be if we were doing an apprenticeship, yet we are doing this with no pay.

Additional Information

Yes there is the grant in place which is £5000 but if you look at this in terms of the national living wage which is £9.90 an hour and in terms of the 2300 hours we are working, this is £15,000 over our 3 year course we are receiving in the grant, but this still doesn’t make up the £22,770 we would be making if we were being payed the national living wage. If we are going to decrease the shortage of NHS staff not only do nurses need to be paid more, student nurses deserve to be payed to.


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