Submitted by Jonathan Shaw on Wednesday 26th November 2025
Published on Tuesday 20th January 2026
Current status: Open
Open until: Monday 20th July 2026
Current Signatures: 213
(count is updated approximately hourly)
Relevant Departments
Tagged with
Access ~ Citizens ~ Coming to the UK ~ Cost ~ Demand ~ design ~ Guardian ~ health care ~ Healthcare ~ insurance ~ Medic ~ National Insurance ~ National Insurance Number ~ NHS ~ NHS treatment ~ Parent ~ Pressure ~ system ~ The NHS ~ UK citizens ~ World Class
Require a National Insurance number to access any NHS treatment
We believe anyone wanting free medical attention or treatment from the NHS should only qualify if they or their parent or guardian have a National Insurance Number. Without this, we believe they must be required to pay for their treatment.
The NHS was designed to make sure all UK citizens had access to health care. We believe the system has been exploited by health tourists coming to the UK knowing they could get free world class treatment.
We believe the pressure to cover the increasing cost of the service when more and more people are overloading the system is unsustainable. Rather than constantly financing the increasing demand, we believe we should limit who can access it.
If you want to sign this petition (as opposed to merely discuss it), you need to do that on the government's e-Petitions website.
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