Retired Doctors to Train Young Unemployed for COVID-19 Care

Rejected 21 signatures

What the petition asks

Plenty of hotels and cruise ships are empty. They have facilities for COVID-19 patients.

Most retired doctors and nurses should not be in direct contact with the virus.

However, they can train unemployed young people to care for COVID-19 patients in these hotels and cruise ships.

This needs to be actioned immediately. The government should bring this petition to the COBRA committee.

Why it was rejected

It asked for something that is not the responsibility of the UK Government or Parliament.

The NHS has already called for clinicians to return to the NHS to help fight the coronavirus outbreak, and the Government has passed legislation to remove barriers to allow recently retired NHS staff to return to work.

Decisions about how clinicians returning to the NHS will be deployed are operational decisions for the NHS, not matters for the Government or Parliament.

The Government has also already published information about how individuals can safely help in the current situation: ttps://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-how-to-help-safely--2/coronavirus-how-to-help-safely

You could start a new petition calling on the Government to requisition hotels and cruise ships to provide increased capacity for coronavirus patients.

You can find out more about coronavirus and how you can protect yourself and others here:

NHS website: https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/
UK Government website: https://www.gov.uk/coronavirus

You can read NHS tips to help if you are worried about coronavirus here: https://www.nhs.uk/oneyou/every-mind-matters/coronavirus-covid-19-anxiety-tips

Timeline

17 Mar 2020	Petition opened for signatures
6 Apr 2020	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 21

Status Rejected

Rejected 6 Apr 2020

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