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Support Nurses & Healthcare Professionals at NHS&Private Healthcare Organisation

Rejected 18 signatures

What the petition asks

*Nurses & Healthcare Professionals to be exempted from Tax during COVID-19 period
*Provision of free meals using canteen/food coupons for all Nurses & other Healthcare Professionals during working hours
*Priority counters for Healthcare Profesionals in supermarkets &reserving basic food commodity
* The Nurses/Healthcare Professionals, the real heroes in the frontline battle of COVID-19, deserves our constant and never ending support
* Exemption of Taxes, priority counters at supermarkets, reserved food commodities, free meals etc. not only improves the employee morale but emphasises largely on the importance of their role in the community now.
* This will further pave way for more Healthcare Professionals and volunteers to join the team to fight this pandemic.

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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Pay bonus to all key workers: Pay bonus to all key workers

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Supply NHS key frontline staff working during Covid-19 healthy food hampers: Supply NHS key frontline staff working during Covid-19 healthy food hampers

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

25 Mar 2020 Petition opened for signatures
1 May 2020 Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 18
Status Rejected
Rejected 1 May 2020

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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 15 Jul 2026.