Petition · past parliament
Bring back funding for our healthcare students
Rejected
17 signatures
What the petition asks
We're are a group of young people who are currently completing our NCS challenge. We are passionate about national healthcare and we feel it is unjust that funding will be taken away from healthcare students.
We are starting this petition because we believe this funding should be remain available.
We are starting this petition because we believe this funding should be remain available.
From August 2017 the government are cutting the funding for healthcare students. This means they will have to take out a student loan. This will result in approximately 2600 fewer students per year studying nursing in England alone. It will affect the lives of local people countrywide as there will be longer waiting times, less appointments available and a lack of emergency care.
Why it was rejected
There was already a petition about this issue. Duplicates are rejected so signatures collect in one place.
Timeline
| 21 Aug 2016 | Petition opened for signatures |
| 22 Aug 2016 | Rejected by the Petitions Committee |
Key facts
Signatures
17
Status
Rejected
Rejected
22 Aug 2016
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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 15 Jul 2026.