Provide added life insurance cover healthcare workers / essential services.

Rejected 13 signatures

What the petition asks

Inadequate PPE for healthcare workers and members of essential services. Even 30 and 40 year old medics and nurses are on ventilators. It is Government’s duty to support the immediate family and provide healthcare if they survive but disabled by complications of corona virus infection.

NHS staff are the fourth fighting force and are not recognised in the same way as the armed forces. We are fighting this battle with inadequate PPE / appropriate weapons. We are exposing young doctors, nurses, radiographers and allied health professionals to a novel virus. We are recalling the vulnerable recently retired NHS staff, who are at increased risk of complications or even death. Start a COVID fund for the NHS staff who are fighting a battle against the deadly and invisible enemy.

Why it was rejected

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

We understand that you want the Government to provide additional support to essential workers who suffer disability or death because of coronavirus, but it's not clear if you want the Government to provide additional support in the event of death, or disability, or both, and also whether you want this to apply only to healthcare workers, or all essential workers. You could start a new petition stating in more detail exactly what you want the Government to do.

We have published a petition calling on the Government to fund increased death in service benefits for NHS staff who die during Covid-19, which you might like to sign: Fund increased death in service benefits for NHS staff who die during Covid-19

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

www.gov.uk/coronavirus
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/

The Government has also created an online service to help you out what you can do if you’re struggling because of coronavirus: https://www.gov.uk/find-coronavirus-support

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 can read impartial analysis of the Government response to coronavirus and policy developments here:
https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/coronavirus/

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

Timeline

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

Key facts

Signatures 13

Status Rejected

Rejected 27 Apr 2020

Follow this petition