Improve the terms and conditions of employment for general practice nurses

Rejected 19 signatures

What the petition asks

General Practice Nurses (GPN’s) are not directly employed by the NHS and so a great deal of disparity exists amongst the pay and employment conditions offered by individual employers. Some GPN’s cannot access training and receive only statutory levels of sick pay, maternity pay and annual leave.

It is suggested that a 1/3 of all nurses working in general practice plan to retire by 2020 (Cummings, 2017; QNI, 2016). Both; General Practice – Developing confidence, capability and capacity (NHS England, 2017) and General Practice Nursing (GPN) Workforce Development Plan – Recognise, Rethink and Reform (HEE, 2017), are encouraging responses, however neither address the “elephant in the room”. Pay and conditions are central to the recruitment and retention of GPN’s and must be addressed.

Why it was rejected

It was not clear what the petition asked the UK Government or Parliament to do.

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Timeline

14 Mar 2018	Petition opened for signatures
20 Mar 2018	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 19

Status Rejected

Rejected 20 Mar 2018

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