Do COVID-19 Testing for ALL healthcare workers (both NHS & private sector)

Rejected 19 signatures

What the petition asks

Make it mandatory for doctors, nurses and other healthcare workers who come in direct contact with patients to be tested for COVID-19 in both NHS an private sector. The NHS is overwhelmed with this pandemic and the private sector has stepped in with an agreement to lighten up the NHS load.

There is not point of lockdown if the frontliner looking after a patient gets infected. By doing this it will give time to have the frontliner recover and be well again to work instead of leaving it too late. There are already cases of healthcare workers ending up intubated because it was too late for them. We cannot manage to lose more of the healthcare workforce. Screen them, treat them so they can get back up in the frontline again.

Why it was rejected

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

You may wish to sign this petition calling for the same action: Make Covid-19 testing available for all healthcare professionals.

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

Timeline

22 Mar 2020	Petition opened for signatures
31 Mar 2020	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 19

Status Rejected

Rejected 31 Mar 2020

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