Petition · past parliament
Create a specific offence to protect Nurses, Paramedics & Medical volunteers.
Closed
310 signatures
What the petition asks
This offence should be created to enable prosecution for anyone who assaults Medical Staff. This offence can be committed anywhere medical personnel are working. This must be extended to not only to NHS trusts, but also voluntary organisations and private providers.
Medical Staff are life-savers
Medical Staff are life-savers
Paramedics have threatened with death, spat at, kicked, punched and had knives pulled on them as they answer emergency calls.
Ambulance trust’s are now calling on magistrates to get tough with offenders convicted of assaulting 999 teams, to protect frontline medics from violence and abuse.
There is no deterrent. If people knew they would get a guaranteed prison sentence for attacking medical staff, they would probably think twice about doing it.
Ambulance trust’s are now calling on magistrates to get tough with offenders convicted of assaulting 999 teams, to protect frontline medics from violence and abuse.
There is no deterrent. If people knew they would get a guaranteed prison sentence for attacking medical staff, they would probably think twice about doing it.
Timeline
| 18 Jul 2016 | Petition opened for signatures |
| 18 Jan 2017 | Closed to new signatures |
Key facts
Signatures
310
Status
Closed
Opened
18 Jul 2016
Closed
18 Jan 2017
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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 15 Jul 2026.