Collectively award the George Cross to all NHS staff after the Covid-19 pandemic

Rejected 19 signatures

What the petition asks

The U.K. Government should put forward a suggestion for the awarding of a collective George Cross to all NHS staff following the end of the coronavirus pandemic.

As the highest civilian honour that can awarded, the George Cross is a prestigious decoration founded to honour those civilians who showed acts of heroism in the Second World War. Likened to the Blitz, we are pushing through this pandemic and for that we owe our NHS. Only twice has the George Cross been awarded to a collective; the people of Malta after their air bombardment during WWII and the Royal Ulster Contablury for their hard work in the Troubles. An award to this NHS is much deserved.

Why it was rejected

There was already a petition about this issue. Duplicates are rejected so signatures collect in one place.

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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

You may also be interested to know that because of the large number of petitions that have been started in relation to coronavirus, the Petitions Committee has been questioning the Government about its response to the coronavirus outbreak.

Find out more and watch the Committee put questions suggested by petitioners to Government Ministers and the Deputy Chief Medical Officer: https://committees.parliament.uk/committee/326/petitions-committee/news/145767/committee-question-deputy-chief-medical-officer-and-ministers-on-coronavirus-response/

Read correspondence with Government Ministers asking further questions: https://committees.parliament.uk/committee/326/petitions-committee/publications/3/correspondence/

Timeline

20 Mar 2020	Petition opened for signatures
15 Apr 2020	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 19

Status Rejected

Rejected 15 Apr 2020

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