Submitted on Thursday 6th November 2025
Rejected on Friday 5th December 2025
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Pay nursing students for the work they do on their placements.
Nursing students should be paid for the work they do on placement. Student nurses spend thousands of hours delivering frontline care in hospitals, clinics, and communities. They face costs like travel, parking, uniforms, and meals, while paying tuition fees. Placements are work. They deserve pay.
Nursing students are vital to the NHS, yet many are being pushed to the brink. They’re expected to do over 2,300 hours of placements across their course, the same as working full-time for more than a year, with no pay. Many are struggling to afford basic living costs, relying on foodbanks or dropping out altogether. This means, most can’t take on extra paid work. They miss out on key parts of student life; the chance to rest, socialise, or build soft skills through sport, volunteering, or societies. This isn’t just unfair, it’s unsustainable. Everyone deserves fair pay for real work.
You can't sign this petition because it was rejected. But you can still comment on it here at Repetition.me!
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
216.73.217.50 Sun, 21 Jun 2026 01:34:26 +0100
