Give the NHS an emergency funding package to cope with Covid-19.

Nurses and doctors need to be rewarded for their hard work and need more masks and better equipment to handle the virus. Patients with Covid-19 need appropriate equipment to recover, reversing current shortages. There need to be more tests distributed widely for medical staff.

You may wish to sign one or both of the following petitions which call for similar actions:
Provide an Emergency fund for Health & Social Care Providers due to COVID-19
Emergency funding increase for mental health services due to Covid -19 pandemic

### Further information



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/



Find out the latest updates from Parliament on the COVID-19 outbreak, including ways that you can get involved: https://www.parliament.uk/business/news/covid-19/

 

Are you an academic or researcher? Find out how you can help Parliament scrutinise the Government’s response to coronavirus: https://www.parliament.uk/covid19-researcher-engagement



### What the Petitions Committee is doing



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/