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Make nursing an apprenticeship style course, where placement are paid.

Submitted on Friday 24th October 2025

Rejected on Thursday 27th November 2025

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

Petition Action

Make nursing an apprenticeship style course, where placement are paid.

Petition Details

Stop nursing courses going through university and have more option for work based routes.

Additional Information

Nursing course are majorly based on placements, where student are wrongly being classed in staff numbers and treated as staff members, working full time shifts. They are getting a bursary solely for these shifts when doing near enough the same work as a qualified nurse and working the same, if not more hours.


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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 the following petition, which calls for similar action:

Fund pay for student nurses and midwives for placement hours
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/746707

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