Petition · past parliament
Use emergency powers for control of private UK hospitals during COVID19
Rejected
21 signatures
What the petition asks
Use emergency parliamentary legislation to bring private hospital facilities into the use of the NHS to help deal with the COVID19 outbreak
Because the NHS can’t do this with funding alone. The government has starved the NHS for years and now it’s on its knees will demand this mammoth effort. Once this is done you can be sure they will have no gratitude but we need to help the NHS through this and use the 8000 urgent care beds in the private system to do that.
Why it was rejected
There was already a petition about this issue. Duplicates are rejected so signatures collect in one place.
Timeline
| 14 Mar 2020 | Petition opened for signatures |
| 19 Mar 2020 | Rejected by the Petitions Committee |
Key facts
Signatures
21
Status
Rejected
Rejected
19 Mar 2020
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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 15 Jul 2026.