Submitted by Frazer Harry Protheroe on Friday 5th December 2025
Published on Thursday 15th January 2026
Current status: Open
Open until: Wednesday 15th July 2026
Current Signatures: 85
(count is updated approximately hourly)
Relevant Departments
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Access ~ Dignity ~ Equal ~ Guaranteed ~ health care ~ Healthcare ~ Human Rights ~ Human Rights Act ~ NHS ~ Privatisation ~ Protect the NHS ~ Remove ~ rights act ~ The NHS ~ Universities
Make access to free and universal healthcare a protected human right
I want the Government to add access to free and universal NHS healthcare as a protected right under the Human Rights Act 1998. This would make universal healthcare a guaranteed legal right for everyone.
The NHS is vital to life, dignity and equality. We believe adding the right to free and universal healthcare to the Human Rights Act would protect the NHS from privatisation or exclusion, ensuring that no future government can remove access without breaching fundamental human rights.
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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